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Pioneering interdisciplinary artist Charles Atlas new exhibit ‘HAIL THE NEW PURITAN’ @ The Bass Museum of Art
The latest exhibition being mounted at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach is HAIL THE NEW PURITAN by pioneering interdisciplinary artist Charles Atlas. He is an American video artist and film director who also does lighting and set design, and is a pioneer in developing media-dance, also called dance for camera. Media dance…
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I Dream A World : a retrospective by queer Brit award-winning Artist/filmmaker SIR ISAAC JULIEN
British Installation artist and filmmaker Sir Isaac Julien (“Young Soul Rebels‘ ”Looking For Langston” and also currently Distinguished Professor of the Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz has his frst ever retrospective ‘ I Dream a World” at an American museum. The title of the Show was taken from Langston Hughes’ famous poem, and…
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Pigeon Impersonation Pageant ……ONLY in NY
When gay peeps head for their dressing-up box, then probably 9 out of 10 will emerge as a drag queen (that Ru-Paul has a lot to answer for). Now it seems like ‘heteros’ in New York have developed their own version of drag as they are getting in line to dress up as PIGEONS. Yes,…
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Paris unveils a stunning new Memorial honoring and remembering LGBTQ+ victims of the Holocaust
The city of Paris marked this year’s International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) with the unveiling of a new memorial in WW2. Under the Nazi regime, up to 17 million people were systematically killed including six million Jews, hundreds of thousands of disabled people, and thousands of LGBTQ+ people, amongst many other groups…
