Tag: exhibition
Georg Meyer-Weil’s new exhibition PUNCH explores the subject of boxing and wrestling.
Queer London artist Georg Meyer-Wiel‘s fascination with exploring masculinity through a rich variety of media comes through so brilliantly in his new work in his latest solo exhibition PUNCH which opens this week at London’s Fitzrovia Gallery and presents new drawings on paper, exploring the subject of boxing and wrestling. Since graduating…
EMERGENCE : the inaugural exhibition at the new Joshua Tree Gallery of Contemporary Art
There can be no better role model to inspire one for the new year (or any year for that matter) than the multi-talented irrepressible Hollywood photographer Michael Childers. A man I am fortunate enough to call my friend and although we are about the same age, he runs rings around me on how…
Marc Martin : HANDSOME LIAR (NSFW)
Four years we came across a remarkable queer French artist called Marc Martin whose Exhibition ‘Public Toilets, Private Affairs’ was opening at Berlin’s LGBT Schwules Museum. He was bringing the topic of ‘cottaging ” right out into the open with this exhibition book that was almost like a celebration of this illicit activity. He had…
Brut, My Beauty: Jean Dubuffet and Jean-Michel Basquiat
This weekend’s your last chance to catch Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty in the Barbican Gallery in London. It is the first major UK exhibition of French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) in over 50 years. One of the most provocative voices in postwar modern art, Dubuffet rebelled against conventional ideas of beauty, hoping to capture the poetry…
The radical Drag troupe BLOOLIPS still making an Exhibition of Themselves
Bloolips were a theatre troupe formed in London in 1977 by Bette Bourne. They created funny, camp shows with titles such as Lust in Space, Slung Back & Strapless and Get Hur. The brochure by Paul Shaw that accompanies the exhibition, states that “The drag was known at the time as radical drag, in…
