David Pevsner’s book Damn Shame – A Memoir of Desire, Defiance and Show Tunes is exactly that. We join him on a conversational romp through New York and LA’s theatrical, gay sex and activism worlds from the 1980s to the present day. Born in 1958 into a middle-class Jewish family in suburban Chicago, Pevsner grew … Continue reading
\ Cinema, reality, and fiction combined in this extremely well-crafted film, also photographed and written by Argentinian director Manuel Abramovich, with a screenplay in collaboration with Fernando Krapp and Pio Longo. Pornomelancholia is a compelling portrait of loneliness in the times of social media where there is no place for privacy. It is a … Continue reading
Bodyshop is the latest, and final film by acclaimed queer Hong Kong filmmaker Scud (Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung), who is retiring. A front-runner in Asian queer film-making, his previous films include Voyage, Utopians, Amphetamine and Adonis. Scud is a unique filmmaker, and here combines extreme sex, nudity, and rape scenes with documentary-type interviews, camp elements, … Continue reading
NY-based award-winning photographer STEVEN MENENDEZ has a brand new Exhibit opening at THE SOHO PROJECT SPACE in NY on Thursday 30th March 2023. Titled EARTH WORSHIP it is a stunning series of portraits and landscapes capturing the powerful imagery of the Earth and the male form in states of bliss in the majesty of … Continue reading
Lucian Freud’s landmark exhibition to mark the centenary of his birth finishes next Sunday 22nd January at London’s National Gallery, so head on down there while you can. Freud (1922-2011) was one of Britain’s most renowned figurative painters. Born in Berlin, and the grandson of the famous psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, his family fled the Nazis … Continue reading
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