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Your April Reading List

Posted 04.14.2013 | Arts
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April ushers in lively spring, and the newest art books this month get us in the mood for warmer weather. From photography monographs gleaming with in...

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Is Queer The New Normal? (NSFW)

Posted 01.05.2013 | Arts
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What if the garden of Eden had operated a little bit differently? In his new exhibition "In The Garden," Dutes Miller creates a mythological place whe...

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30 LGBT Artists We Love

Posted 10.13.2012 | Arts
Read More: Camille Paglia, Gay Photographers, Gay Artists for Obama, Art in America, Susan Mikula Rachel Maddow, Gay Artists, Artists for Obama, Del Legrace Volcano, Video, Queer Artists, Queer Art, Gay Pride Month, LGBT Art, Gay Performance Artists, Trans Art, On Our Radar, Arts News

October is LGBT History Month, and we're celebrating with our party hats on. Especially since today is National Coming Out Day! What better way to ene...

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Painting With the Boys

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 09.17.2012 | Arts
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Louise Fishman may be the first artist we've ever heard of to grow up with dreams of playing basketball. Eventually, she swapped one boys' club for an...

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Stunning Testimonies Of Queer Youth

Posted 07.12.2012 | Arts
Read More: Michael Sharkey, Samantha Box, Bklyn Boihood, Molly Steadman, Slideexpand, Lbgt Youth, Testimony, Gerard Gaskin, Lgbt, We Are the Youth, Video, Queer Testimony, Valerie Shaff, Leslie/Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, Brian Shumway, LGBT Art, Queer Art, Lgbtq Youth, Amos Mac, Arts News

A living exhibition is out to give visibility and voice to queer youth across the globe, in vivid colors. The show is an extension of the website "Tes...

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Marina Abramović Is Not A Feminist

André von Ah | Posted 09.10.2012 | Gay Voices
Read More: Marina Abramovic, Queer Art, Feminist Art, Feminism, Marina Abramovic Queer Art, Marina Abramovic Feminism, Queerness, Marina Abramovic Feminist, Marina Abramovic Queer, Gay Voices News
André von Ah

Marina Abramović has repeatedly said that she is not a feminist. I think that Marina's declarations only mean that she is not a feminist activist, not that she does not believe in women's rights, and I think that that could be seen as a queer statement.

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15 LGBT Art Exhibits To Celebrate Pride

Posted 06.14.2012 | Arts
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In celebration of LGBT Pride Month, we've put together a slideshow featuring 15 gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer art exhibitions on view ...

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The Many Queers

André von Ah | Posted 08.13.2012 | Gay Voices
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André von Ah

Some of the questions I was most asked when talking about the QNYI was why were we doing a queer international arts festival in New York. Aren't we over that sort of frame yet? Haven't we come a long way? Isn't everything already so queer?

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Queer Christ Arises To Liberate And Heal

Kittredge Cherry | Posted 06.03.2012 | Gay Voices
Read More: Gay Easter, Queer Christian Art, Gay Jesus, LGBT Christians, Gay Christians, Queer Art, LGBT Art, Gay Christian Art, Queer Christ, Lgbt Christian Art, Lgbt Easter, Queer Theology, Christianity, Queer Christians, Gay Voices News
Kittredge Cherry

There is black Jesus, Asian Jesus, female "Christa," and now queer Jesus to set people free and heal some of the damage done in Christ's name. Many, including me, see the queer Christ Jesus as a blessing that builds faith by embodying God's wildly inclusive love for all.

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Zackary Drucker's "Gold Standard" (NSFW)

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.21.2012 | Arts
Read More: Lgbt, Photography, Zackary Drucker, Video, Queer, Transgender, Translady Fanzine, Zackary Drucker and Amos Mac, Transsexual, LGBT Art, Queer Art, Performance Art, Fashion, Amos Mac, Slidepollajax, Gender, Arts News

Zackary Drucker is a transgender performance artist who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality and seeing. The artist uses a female pron...

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The Bunny Boys Are Back In Town

Posted 03.27.2012 | Arts
Read More: Bunny, Video, Cindy Sherman, Adolescent Boys, Volta, Bratislava, Queer Art, Gay, Rembrandt, Berlin Art, Andrej Dubravsky, Slidepollajax, Wicker Man, Donnie Darko, Galerie Jiri Svestka, Arts News

Andrej Dubravsky paints inexperienced boys with an unsettling pair of bunny ears. They shift back and forth between vulnerable and wicked, showing the...

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Gay Artist Reschedules Event Scrapped By Villanova

AP | Posted 02.24.2012 | Arts
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VILLANOVA, Pa. -- A gay performance artist whose planned five-day workshop on personal narrative was scrapped by Villanova University has rescheduled ...

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Barbara Hammer At The Tate Modern

Posted 02.22.2012 | Arts
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Barbara Hammer is an experimental filmmaker and is perhaps best known for her early work, which constitutes some of the first lesbian-made films (see:...

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Villanova Cancels Gay Artist's Workshop

AP | PATRICK WALTERS | Posted 04.22.2012 | Arts
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PHILADELPHIA — Villanova University has canceled a workshop on personal narrative by a gay performance artist, saying his shows aren't in keepin...

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Tilt-Shift: Queer Art Moving in Different Directions

Noel Alumit | Posted 04.17.2012 | Los Angeles
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Noel Alumit

Tilt-Shift is an intriguing show, exploring queer bodies and space. It's an eclectic exhibition with an array of images ranging from the austere to the fabulous.

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EVA & ADELE On Their Lifelong Collaboration

Posted 02.21.2012 | Arts
Read More: Eva & Adele, Marcel Duchamp, Women Artists, Queer Theory, UK Arts, Claude Cahun, Eva, Eva&adele, Gender, Gender Performance, Andy Warhol, Video, Pierre Molinier, Adele, Joseph Beuys, Queer Art, Performance Art, Gay Marriage, Arts News

You've probably seen them at a gallery at some point, but then again, this Austro-German duo is arguably its own moving museum. Meet the living works ...

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Is This The Freakiest Thing You've Seen Today?

Posted 01.20.2012 | Arts
Read More: Hendrickson, Queer Art, Video, Nolan Hendrickson, Ramiken Crucible, Contemporary Painting, New York Art Gallery, Arts News

Race, gender and sexuality are definitely some of today's hottest topics. While many approach it the subjects on tip-toe, skirting around offensivenes...

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Art In The Shadow of Culture Wars

Posted 01.17.2012 | Arts
Read More: Coming After, Toronto, Art, ACT UP, Glen Fogel, Queer Art, Gay Artists, Power-Plant-Toronto, Art Exhibitions, Gay Issues, Arts News

In the beginning of The Miracle of the Rose, Jean Genet writes, "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in...

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Queer/Art/Mentorship: Why I Dislike the Term 'Queer Art' But Mentor a Queer Artist Anyway

Everett Quinton | Posted 01.03.2012 | Gay Voices
Read More: Queer/Art/Mentorship, Queer Theater, Art, Queer Art, Gay Theater, Gay Art, Queer Art Mentorship, Gay Voices News
Everett Quinton

I, like so many other queer artists, grew up in fear and isolation. Even with evidence to the contrary, I still thought I was the only queer in the world. A queer mind full of wonderful queer ideas with nobody to talk to about them.

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Queer/Art/Mentorship: How Mentoring Emerging Queer Artists Helps Them... And Me

Jennie Livingston | Posted 12.24.2011 | Gay Voices
Read More: Film, Queer Film, Queer/Art/Mentorship, Queer Art, LGBT Art, Lgbt Film, Queer Art Mentorship, Art Mentorship, Gay Voices News
Jennie Livingston

Why join Ira Sachs and Lily Binns in Queer/Art/Mentorship? Because what Werner Herzog and Alan J. Pakula did for me when I was just out of college was simple. They said (though not in these exact words), "You go, girl!"

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What Queer Mentorship Has Done for Me

Guadalupe Rosales | Posted 12.18.2011 | Gay Voices
Read More: Queer Mentorship, LGBT Art, Queer Art, Art, Queer/Art/Mentorship, Gay Voices News
Guadalupe Rosales

I recently received the Queer/Art/ Mentorship Fellowship, and artist Louise Fishman became my mentor. I remember the first thing I learned from Louise: she told me not to throw away anything that I work on.

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What Is Queer Art?

Lily Binns | Posted 12.11.2011 | Gay Voices
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Lily Binns

I hope our willingness to present our queerness, in our bodies, ideas and works of art, makes our mentors proud of the careers they've fought for. They've made this protest against the privileges of so-called normalcy possible.

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A New Community: Queer/Art/Mentorship

Ira Sachs | Posted 12.04.2011 | Gay Voices
Read More: Lgbt, Queer Film, Gay Film, Lgbt Mentors, Queer Art, LGBT Art, Gay Mentors, Lgbt Film, Queer Mentors, Gay Art, Gay Voices News
Ira Sachs

By creating a structure for interaction among artists, among queers, among generations, we hope to create a new sense of home, a new community. Who knows what trouble we can cause.

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