Barbican Gallery
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion’ at London’s Barbican Art Gallery
Scrolling through TikTok or Instagram, or walking down London’s Sloane or Bond Streets, you could be forgiven for thinking designer fashion was all about pristine, very smart looks. Fashion, however, has had a dark, distressed side for decades.Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion, the first fashion exhibition at London’s excellent Barbican Art Gallery…
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ALICE NEEL: HOT OF THE GRIDDLE a major retrospective at London’s Barbican
London’s Barbican Gallery has just opened a major retrospective of the stunning work of the American feminist visual painter ALICE NEEL called Hot Off The Griddle. Neel was known for her vivid portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers that capture the shifting social and political context of the American twentieth century. Crowned…
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Carolee Schneemann BODY POLITICS diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary @ Barbican Gallery, London
The Barbican Gallery in London is about to open the first major survey of Carolee Schneemann’s work in the UK. Schneemann was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality, and gender. Originally a painter in the Abstract Expressionist tradition, Schneeman was uninterested in the masculine…
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Queer Art in London 2020 : Save The Dates
The House of Illustration is marking the centenary of the birth gay cultural icon Tom of Finland (born Touko Laaksonen) with the UK”s first public Exhibition dedicated to his work Called Tom of Finland : Love and Liberation it will celebrate the artist whose unique aesthetic and homoerotic visions had a profound impact on the…
