Explorations of intimate queer relationships by 48 LGBTQIA+ artists are currently on show at a two-part New York exhibition at Lehman College Art Gallery in the Bronx and La MaMa Galleria in Lower Manhattan. Queer Love: Affection & Romance in Contemporary Art presents paintings, photographs, sculpture, video, and multimedia works that celebrate queer carnality, camaraderie,... Continue Reading →
Lee Laa Ray Guillory wins Queer|Art’s Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists
New York's Queer|Art—founded in 2009 by filmmaker Ira Sachs to support a generation of LGBTQ+ artists that lost mentors to the AIDS Crisis of the 1980s—has just announced that Lee Laa Ray Guillory is the winner of the organization's second annual Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists. The New Orleans-based interdisciplinary artist will... Continue Reading →
New York’s Leslie-Lohman reopens with major retrospective of lesbian photographer Laura Aguilar: Show & Tell
New York's Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art reopened earlier this month with two new exhibitions. Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell, marks the first comprehensive retrospective of the late American photographer’s candid portrayals of herself, her friends and family, and LGBTQ+ and Latinx communities. The museum's second exhibition, Dissolution, features works created by the first two cohorts... Continue Reading →
Visual AIDS presents Day With(out) Art 2020: TRANSMISSIONS premieres November 30th at 6pm EST
For Day With(out) Art 2020, Visual AIDS presents TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. The video program brings together artists working across the world: Jorge Bordello (Mexico), Gevi Dimitrakopoulou (Greece), Las Indetectables (Chile), George Stanley Nsamba (Uganda), Lucía Egaña Rojas (Chile/Spain), and Charan Singh (India/UK). The program does not intend to give a comprehensive account of... Continue Reading →
NewFest 2020 Film Review: Keith Haring: Street Art Boy ★★★★
Despite its relatively short running time of just 53 minutes, or perhaps because of it, director Ben Anthony's made-for-television documentary Keith Haring: Street Art Boy, which premiered at NewFest, manages to cover a lot of ground. In fact a parallel emerges of a prolific artist with an intense creative drive, and the film's style which,... Continue Reading →
Maxwell Fine to donate percentage of artwork profits to UK’s LGBT+ Switchboard
For many in our community isolation is a dangerous place, both physically and emotionally, with an increased risk of suicide, depression and abusive households. Artist Maxwell Fine has announced he will be donating a percentage of profits from the sale of his bold typographical prints and sculptures to UK's LGBT+ helpline Switchboard. "Almost every single... Continue Reading →
Boys! Boys! Boys! Volume 5 – Paris Photo – 1-12 November on Paddle8
Boys! Boys! Boys! is back in its 5th edition to coincide with Paris Photo, the world's largest photo fair. In a continuing partnership between leading contemporary online auction house Paddle8 and London's The Little Black Gallery’s Ghislain Pascal. Tim Hailand's Oliver standing Tiegarten Berlin, 2017, 2017 Boys! Boys! Boys! is a celebration of established and emerging... Continue Reading →
The Streets Are Queer – Nov 9 – Dec 7 2019, Los Angeles
In Heroes We Trust and Rainbow Walls present The Streets Are Queer, a group show of North American street artists who identify as Queer. This is billed as a first-of-its-kind show, bringing together artists who create and express their individual identities within the Queer spectrum by spray painting, wheat pasting, and slap tagging the streets... Continue Reading →
Boys! Boys! Boys! Cologne Pride Pop-up Exhibition
Biesenbach Gallery, Cologne, Germany, The Little Black Gallery, London and Paddle8 host the opening night of pop-up exhibition BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! COLOGNE / PRIDE on Friday 5th July 2019 from 6 to 10 pm. The exhibition will only be on view during Gay Pride weekend in Cologne and presents photographic works by 16 artists. Stuart SandfordCumfaces #7, 2007C Type print, 28... Continue Reading →