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Baby Lies Truthfully : the work of David Robilliard
David Robilliard was a queer British poet and artist, and also sometime model for his artist friends the legendary Gilbert and George. He was also on of the very many talents that was lost to the AIDS pandemic in the 1980’s. However thanks to film/TV maker, Joe Ingham, Robilliard and his work are not forgotten. …
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That’s Nuts!
Not surprisingly but James Frederick, one of Queerguru’s favorite PTown Artists, latest mini comic book really sums up how we all feel right now. Like him we are also nuts about nuts BUT also it is the perfect description of this mandatory self-isolating we are all undertaking . Even if it also means we…
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Daniel Lismore ‘a living work of art’ creates crystal clad costumes for the Opera
English National Opera’s Artistic Consultant Daniel Kramer who is staging a revival of Harrison Birtwistle’s iconic masterpiece THE MASK OF ORPHEUS had the inspired idea of inviting artist/designer Daniel Lismore to design the costumes. Lismore, once described by Vogue as ‘England’s most outrageous dresser‘ has used 400,000 Swarovski crystals so that each of the…
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The great British artist Sir Howard Hodgkin Dies
The great British abstract painter Sir Howard Hodgkin has died aged 84 years old just a couple of weeks before a major show of his portraits opens at the National Portrait Gallery in London on 23 March. Hodgkin was recognized as a central figure in contemporary art for over half a century, and the…
