Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThere was almost too much to see at the Queer Perspectives event in London’s National Portrait Gallery so once we had grabbed a large glass of wine it was a joy to bump into the indefatigable John Sizzle on DJ duty. Spinning his mercurial mix of camp classics and 80’s anthems he looked like the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterDuring FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain) the major contemporary art fair in Paris., the Pompidou Center always holds an extravagant event of its own. This year on the 5th floor of the Musée National d’Art Moderne the avant-garde American designer Rick Owens mounted You x Art x Centre Pompidou a special evening with some … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterLast week the Guggenheim Museum in NY unveiled the second part of their major retrospective of the legendary queer artist Robert ‘Mapplethorpe called Implicit Tensions Whereas the first part of the Exhibit, which recently closed, ,featured highlights from the Guggenheim’s in-depth Mapplethorpe holdings which the Mapplethorpe Foundation gifted them in 1993 They included early … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe people at Starkers have another Life Drawing class at The Glory in London and the model this time will Boylesque performer Roman. The theme is Horror, and so you can draw Roman’s bloody performance whilst enjoying a playlist of camp horror classics. One the other best things is they don’t even care … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterQueerguru has written about Brit heartthrob actor Russell Tovey’s passion for Art before (https://queerguru.com/brit-actor-russell-tovey-gallerist-robert-diament-talk-queer-art/) but now he has taken it one step further with Life is Excellent. It’s a feature-length documentary chronicling the inimitable life of one of his heroes, David Robilliard — a radical queer poet and artist who died of AIDS at … Continue reading