Tag: Art exhibit

  • Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art: opens Valentines Day 2023

    Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art: opens Valentines Day 2023

    Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art presents paintings and photographs that illuminate both individual and universal stories of vulnerability, tenderness, and desire in the LGBTQIA community.The exhibition, which gathers the work of almost 50 artists, opens in two New York City galleries in February 2023−Lehman College Art Gallery in the Bronx from February 14…

  • The First Homosexuals : an Art Exhibit at Wrightwood 659 @ Chicago

    The First Homosexuals : an Art Exhibit at Wrightwood 659 @ Chicago

      First Homosexuals: Global Depictions of a New Identity, 1869-1930, begins in the year 1869, when the word “homosexual” was coined in Europe, inaugurating the idea of same-sex desire as the basis for a new identity category. With more than 100 paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and film clips—drawn from public and private collections around the globe…

  • Jurgen Wittdorf : homoerotic art of the communist era in East Germany

    Jurgen Wittdorf : homoerotic art of the communist era in East Germany

        The German Democratic Republic  (communist East Germany) may have beaten West Germany in decriminalizing sexual acts between men by one year in 1968 but they were just as homophobic as the West. Even though they  called themselves a socialist  “workers’ and peasants’ state”.  When the GDR was formed after WW2  it inherited Paragraph…

  • DIRTY QUEERS: LGBTQ+ artists showcased in new exhibition

    DIRTY QUEERS: LGBTQ+ artists showcased in new exhibition

      If you are in London this coming Saturday, October 8th then you should be making your way without fail to Bateman Street Gallery in Soho.  For two days only they are showing Dirty Queers  a “glorious, multi-sensory exhibition of photography, film, art, and sculpture brought to you by a collective of sex-positive, queer artists”…

  • Andrew Sedgwick Guth’s art that all queer men can relate too…… (and lust after?)

    Andrew Sedgwick Guth’s art that all queer men can relate too…… (and lust after?)

      Technically Andrew Sedgwick Guth’s solo show at the Treadwell Gallery in PTown had ts Closing Party last night BUT we are assured by Shann Treadwell the gallery owner/curator that the show will still be hanging for the next few days.   PLUS the good news is that Treadwell whose Gallery has just enjoyed a phenomenal…