Claude Cahun – video by Jeu de Paume, France, 2011 The exhibition of Claude Cahun’s photographs at Jeu de Paume in Paris, France in 2011, and later exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012 featured a wide selection of the artist’s works, some of which have seldom been…
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Hello and Happy New Year! So excited to share two new interviews – on feminism, art, porn, collaboration, and representation – with artists A.L. Steiner and A.K. Burns in the current issue of No More Potlucks. It’s available online and print-on-demand. Best wishes for a healthy, happy, productive 2012, Anthea…
Trailer: Lover Other: The Story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore_barbarahammer.com from Barbara Hammer on Vimeo 1920’s Surrealist artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore come to life in this hybrid documentary. Lesbians and step-sisters, the gender-bending artists lived and worked together all their lives. Heroic resisters to the Nazis occupying…
French lesbian photographer Claude Cahun’s surrealist works are growing more and more popular. Go see the latest retrospective of her works in Barcelona: Claude Cahun 28 October 2011 to 2 February 2012 at Centre de Imatge, Barcelona, Spain “After many years of relative obscurity, the photographs of Claude Cahun (born…
Lesbian Art Herstory: Claude Cahun
Still from the short film Lover Other by Barbara Hammer In September 2011 Barbara Hammer’s new film Lover Other will be screened at the 11th International Eressos Women’s Festival, Skala Eressos Lesvos Island, Greece. Lover Other Barbara Hammer’s collage of photographs, documents, interviews, lyrical passages and dramatised scenes recalls the…
18th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference. Theme:’Revolting: Bodies, Politics & Genders’, 11-12 February 2011. The Lesbian Lives Conference has been organised by the Women’s Studies Centre at University College Dublin for the past seventeen years and in 2011 it celebrates its 18th birthday in Brighton.
The landmark publication ‘Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art’, in which the museum now openly discusses gender issues, and how instrumental women have been in advancing the arts to where they are today, is the greatest piece of art news, which I have heard in 2010.
Essay by Birthe Havmoeller, June 30, 2009.
Lesbians have probably used the camera since it was invented in the 1830’ies. I have found some links to a few old self-portraits, which I want to share with Feminine Moments’ readers: Emma Jane Gay (1830-1919) with her back to the viewer Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) smoking, drinking and showing her…
The closet is a metaphor for something hidden often undisclosed sexual orientation. We talk about a closeted person. I wonder if this term is as old as ‘the closet’ as a European furniture or if the Wikipedia researchers are right when they assume that expressions such as “in the closet”…