New England’s second annual QWOC WEEK, August 2nd-9th, a multicultural pride festival produced by Queer Women of Color and Friends (QWOC+ Boston), will feature local LGBT Visual Artists of color as part of week-long art exhibition, entitled “OUTside the Box: a Queer People of Color Visual Artist Exhibit.” Opening reception…
‘Egoless’ Visual Art Exhibition August 8-29, 2009 Opening Reception Aug. 8, 7:30pm Artist Discussion Panel for Members & Press Aug. 8, 6pm Femina Potens Art Gallery 2199 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94114 Femina Potens writes about the ‘Egoless’ group art show: ‘In May 2009 we divided our fifteen participating artists…
Opening reception of the exhibition was on Wedensday, July 29, 2009, 17.00, at DASK Gallery, Copenhagen.
GENDER TEST – Playing with Identity, July 24 – August 2, 2009
Earlier this year Barbara Hammer got the Teddy Award for the best short film for her film ‘A Horse Is Not A Metaphor’ at The International Berlin Film Festival.
Film still from Cecilia Barriga’s video work ‘Meeting of Two Queens’, 1991. In the experimental video ‘Meeting of Two Queens: Encuentro entre dos Reinas’, Spain, 1991, Cecilia Barriga, a Chilean video artist, recasts the beautiful old Hollywood filmstars Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich in silent film style to tell…
The National Portrait Gallery quotes Sandi Toksvig in their introduction of the exhibition ‘Gay Icons’: ‘How I wish this selection had been available to me when I was young and trying to make sense of my reactions to the world. How inspirational to have had portraits of the great and…
July 24 – August 13 2009 you can see Danish photographer Charlotte Haslund-Christensen‘s exhibition ‘I SKABET’ (In the closet) at Galleri Signe Vad, Nansensgade 47, Copenhagen, Denmark. Charlotte has made mugshots of homosexual Danes. You may know some of her models, because they are all out and proud gay people,…
Lesbian art was on display in Fontanelle Art Gallery downtown Portland, Oregon, USA, during the Portland pride in June 2009. The exhibition ‘Lesbian Art show’, which can be seen on the Fontanelle Gallery’s website now, is made by the artists Mary McAlister, Azsa West and Aubree Bernier-Clarke. Mary explained recently…
Dyketactics & Other Films from the 1970’s by Barbara Hammer from Barbara Hammer’s video stream on Vimeo. Nitrate Kisses (1992) by Barbara Hammer. Nitrate Kisses is an essay documentary, which explores eroded emulsions and images for lost vestiges of lesbian and gay culture. First feature by a pioneer of lesbian cinema,…
Femina Potens Art Gallery invites you to the opening reception of ‘Show me your fantasy’, July 11, 2009, 7-10pm at Femina Potens Art Gallery 2199 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA. Femina Potens is a grassroots non-profit art gallery & performance space, which hosts queer art shows. For their july…
Essay by Birthe Havmoeller, June 30, 2009.
Clifford Chance, one of the world’s leading law firms, is celebrating Gay Pride and marking the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York with a joint art exhibition in its New York and London offices.
Ana Dumitrescu is Franco-Romanian photographer. She works mostly with documentary photography and has made assignments for National Geographic, Playboy, Gamma Agency, Mediafax Agency, but for the last couple of years she has also worked together Accept, the only association in Romania that advocates for human rights and gay rights, and…
Lost and found – Queerying the Archive, an international exhibition of queer art curated by Jane Rowley & Louise Wolthers. It is an exibition with film, installation art and photography private memories and experiences that surpass the usual barriers of gender and sexuality. The exhibition is about how history is…
Danish painter and video artist Henriette Hellstern-Kjøller has returned from sunny California with some photos from the current art exhibition ‘Threads’ at the Somart Gallery. ‘Threads’ is curated by a team of curators of the Queer Cultural Centre in San Francisco. Read my recent post: Queer ‘Threads’ at Somarts Gallery, San Francisco for…
Queer Cultural Center has invited an amazing international group of talented visual/media artists for the queer arts exhibition of the 12th Annual National Queer Arts Festival in California USA. The title of the exhibition is ‘Threads’. Threads is not just about fashion and costume, but also how queerness weaves the…
Painter Lupe Ficara
These artists will manipulate the meanings of masturbation through drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and engineering.
Aalborg Queer Festival, Denmark, August 11-15 2009, is a DIY (do-it-yourself!) and non-profit event. It is a non-sexist and non-racist festival. It is about making a space for creativity and critical thoughts. A way of challenging mainstream culture and gender stereotypes. We welcome transsexuals, transgenders, homosexuals, bisexuals, androgynous people, butches,…