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A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes : an exhibition exploring new femininity and story telling in boundary-pushing fashion
A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes investigates symbols of womanhood and challenges conventional notions of beauty with experimental gowns, headpieces, and jewelry by boundary-pushing fashion designers and artists including Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Chromat, Studio Roosegaarde, Gypsy Sport, Maïmouna Guerresi, and Iris van Herpen. The exhibition features more than 100 articles of fashion, photography, and…
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A Welcome Sight to Art Lovers: Third Sex Takeover at the New Zealand pavilion at this Year’s Venice Biennale
> The New Zealand pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, running now through November at Arsenale, recreates a sun-drenched, lazy beach island setting to present Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp, introducing visitors to the Fa’afafine, Samoa’s “third gender” community. The Fa’afafine are people in Samoa who forages identify themselves as non-binary, a gender that is…
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Authentic Voices of PRIDE: a series of videos sponsored by Chevrolet
The LGBTQ+ community has every reason to be skeptical when big business rushes to embrace us. History has taught us that too often that their focus is purely on getting their hands on the pink dollar which the media has led them to believe is a potential pot of gold. It’s therefore a joy…
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Flashback Friday : Rufus Wainwright’s Opera HADRIAN from 2018
On October 13, 2018, the Canadian Opera Company presented the highly anticipated world premiere of Hadrian by composer Rufus Wainwright and librettist Daniel MacIvor. The opera recounts the epic love story of Roman Emperor Hadrian and his young lover, Antinous. Erased by history, their story is reclaimed for the 21st century by its creators in a…
