Art exhibit
FACET : an exhibition that explore the edges of queer identities : Benjamin Sebastian & Alicia Radage. @ ENCLAVE, London
London’s art scene is forever evolving and one of its current focal points is the collection of dozens of galleries and creative spaces at Enclave in Deptford, home to Goldsmiths University and one of the last London boroughs to retain old-school London vibes. Enclave is a cool, artist-led, non-profit collective, focusing on radical, experimental galleries…
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
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
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…
