Queer art project updates
THE WINTER ISSUE DEVOTED TO ACTIVISM; FEATURES INTERVIEW WITH FRANK MOORE; PREMIER PUBLICATION OF NEW SARAH SCHULMAN PLAY AND MUCH MORE
Contact: Editor Robert Atkins, artery@allianceforarts.org, 212.662.2961
Artery: The AIDS-Arts Forum, created earlier this year by the Estate Project for Artists With AIDS, is the most acclaimed resource for examining the ever-changing face of the AIDS crisis as reflected in the arts.
Artery’s Winter theme is ACTIVISM approached from a fresh, stimulating, and accessible perspective. Features include:
- A special section devoted to writer Sarah Schulman presenting the premier publications of both her play “The child” and two essays including “Through the looking glass,” which will be published next year by University of Wisconsin Press in the anthology Loss within loss, sponsored by the Estate Project and edited by Edmund White;
- Jeff Weinstein’s ode to the pleasures of activism and citizenship;
- Michael Bronski’s surprising interviews with two dozen subjects -- including transgendered performer Kate Bornstein, comedian Kate Clinton, and Lambda Legal Defense Director Kevin Cathcart -- on the origins of their activism;
- Jim Hubbard’s catalog essay on AIDS-activist video for the “Fever in the Archive” exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum opening on December 1;
- Don Shewey’s interview with community-health activist and educator Eric Rofes; and many other features, interviews, reviews, and a round-table discussion.
Additionally, note that the fall issue of Artery, IN MEMORIAM, is devoted to the memorial impulse. For this informative and sometimes surprisingly irreverent issue, Artery presents a smorgasbord of materials ranging from opinion and commentary, interviews and artworks in a variety of media (including Artery’s first audio-work), to feature-articles-cum-databases about AIDS music, AIDS memorials, and memorial services. The last is a sampling of personal anecdotes about funerals and memorial services both absurd and sublime by writers including Dorothy Allison and Christopher Bram.
In addition, this issue offers an incisive and surprising look at what happens to the prices of an artist’s work after he or she dies, an angry “postcard from grief” by Craig Lucas, as well as reports from the International AIDS Conference in Durban, Provincetown, reviews of plays, films, and much, much more.
BARNARD FEMINIST
ART AND ART HISTORY
CONFERENCE
The following are some of the (potentially) lesbian-, bi-, trans-, or queer-themed art papers delivered at the Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference, October 28 and 29, 2000, Barnard College, NY, NY.
- Juliana Kubala, Clark University, “Lesbians and the ‘art’ of self-destruction in I Shot Andy Warhol and high art”
- Pamela Gerrish Nunn, School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, “Looking askance: lesbian painters of the female nude, 1900-1935”
- Cynthia Wiedemann Empen, Indiana University, “‘Gas, twaddle, nonsense’ and ‘Wimmin's rights’: ‘strong-minded’ women and other ‘Fe’he males’ characterized and caricatured in American visual culture, 1848-1860”
- Timothy Heck, Graduate Center, City University of New York, “Traumatic vision and imploded being: Andy Warhol’s Sex parts and Torso series”
- Bettina Berch, Belles lettres magazine, “A questioning eye: the documentary photography of Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952)”
- Ellen Handler Spitz, Stanford University, “‘Look! He's a girl!’ Establishing, reinforcing, and challenging gender stereotypes: the role of picture books”
- Selena Liss. Concordia University, Montreal, “Gender and commerce: capitalism and queer lifestyle advertising”
- Virginia A. Bonner, Emory University, “Diffracted geographies in Yvonne Rainer’s Journeys from Berlin/1971 (1979)”
- Rosemary Joly, Concordia University, “Reclaiming the road for the rest of us pilgrims: the representation of gender, sexuality and space in Cyndra MacDowall’s Road trip diary”
- Leena-Maija Rossi, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, “Masculine women -- a viable form of media representation? Options for gender transitivity in Finnish television commercials”
- Jessica May, University of California, Berkeley, “Elizabeth McCausland and American art criticism of the 1930s-40s”
- Michelle Greet, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, “Titillation or subjugation: race and sexual deviance in Orientalist paintings”
- Maria Pramaggiore, North Carolina State University, “High and low art: bisexual women and aesthetics in Chasing Amy and high art”
- Kate Culkin, New York University, “Upsetting the balance: explaining the career of Harriet Hosmer”
- Also, from the keynote panel: Keller Easterling, Yale University, “A spinster is a bachelor’s wife” and Penny Sparke, Kingston University, UK, “Elsie de Wolfe: gender, class and taste in the domestic interior in early 20th-century USA”
GayArtGallery.net announces the launching of a new online art gallery, hoping to serve as the premiere source for artworks by and for gay men and lesbians. It will feature galleries and exhibits geared to a gay/les audience with a broad appeal, without “dumbing down” the content for any non-gay audience. GayArtGallery.net is based in Washington, D.C.
The inaugural exhibits are “Jerry Stevens: shadow & light”; “Frederick Nunley: drawings”; “Ira Tattleman: the bathhouse series”; and “Bear icons: a sampler” (curated by Les Wright).
If you are interested in more info including exhibition or consignment, email them at exhibit@gayartgallery.net
And elsewhere on the web ...
Sinister wisdom magazine
http://www.sirius.com/~sinister
(with top page photo by Tee A. Corinne)
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972)
http://www.natalie-barney.com - includes biographical and bibliographic info with some illustrations and links to other sites
“Art of the male”
11 original drawings by Go Hirano, “one of Japan's most mysterious erotic artists”
http://www.himself.com/art/hm_gh_001.html
... proceed to calendar ...