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New Museum “Herstory” exhibit of work by feminist artist and writer Judy Chicago .
The New Museum is presenting “Herstory” the first comprehensive New York museum exhibit of work by feminist artist and writer Judy Chicago . She is best known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture, During the 1970s, Chicago founded…
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Time for more Tough Ladies on both the small and big Screens soon
The latest installments of Ryan Murphy’s TV series FEUD are about to hit our screens. Called “Capote vs. the Swan’ they are set in the 1970s and are about writer Truman Capote’s inner circle of “swans,” a term he coined to describe his wealthy female socialite friends. This quintet of powerful women included…
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MYNO’s ‘Oblique Ascension’ Exhibit opens at THE GLORY (one of Queerguru’s fav London queer venues)
Myno’s show is called Oblique Ascension and comprises six large digital works, which explore themes of queer energy, expression and performance. The images were inspired by visits made by Myno to The Glory last summer and, in particular, seeing contestants in the annual drag competition LIPSYNC1000. Celebrating the breadth and variety of drag for…
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The queer Brit Auteur Terrence Davies who excelled in personal film-making, and who treated cinema as artistry has Died
The gay British auteur Terrence Davies who always reached back into the past for the ideas of his films, has just died aged 77 His output was not prolific but it contained some of the very best quintessentially British cinema in the past 50 years. Davies’s breakthrough in 1973 was ‘The Terrence Davies Trilogy.‘ …
