Calendar of queer art events

Items are listed in the calendar even if they are now past; this is done in the interest of having a record of relevant art exhibitions, etc. If additional items are listed for a gallery, etc., full address information will appear only with the first item in the calendar.

2000 May 5-June 4 “‘High five’ im warmem Monat Mai” - group exhibition on sport, beauty and the erotic with works by Allen Frame, Dieter Hall, Matthias Herrmann, Lou Laurita, Tim Lehmacher, Attila R. Lukacs, Walter Pfeiffer, Mauro Restiffe, James Sheehan, Hiroshi Sunairi, Wolfgang Tillmans and Christoph Wachter - Tracey Moffatt’s video “Heaven” in the Project Room - Galerie Schedler Zürich - http://www.schedler.ch/h5prtxt.htm

2000 to July 15 Felix Gonzalez-Torres retrospective - Serpentine Gallery, London

2000 August 25-October 31 “I think about thinking” - Galerie Clara Maria Sels (Poststr. 3, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany) - Duane Michals, photographs 1965-2000

2000 September 7-January 7, 2001 “Amazons of the avant-garde” - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (earlier shown at Guggenheim in Bilbao) - paintings by six Russian women artists from around the time of the Russian Revolution

2000 September 9-October 28 “Tracey Moffatt: Invocations” - L.A Gallery (Domstr. 6, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

2000 September 13-October 1 “Universal diversity 8 (ate)” - Art Group for Lesbian + Gay Artists at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (107 Suffolk St., New York)

2000 September 14-October 14 “Michael David: field paintings” - Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld (560 Broadway, New York 10012 212-941-6355 http://www.artnet.com/bridgewaterlustberg.html

2000 September 15-January 21, 2001 “Pierre et Gilles” - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

2000 September 17-December 31 “Andy Warhol: series and singles” - Fondation Beyeler (Baselstrasse 101, Riehen, Basel, Switzerland)

2000 September 21-November 3 “Marcus Leatherdale: photographs of India, 1993-1999” - Dialectica (415 West Broadway, New York 10012 212-226-8921)

2000 September 29-November 14 “Bruce LaBruce” - MC Magma project by Manlio Caropreso in collaboration with Ernesto Esposito (Via Tortona 4, 20144 Milano, Italy)

2000 October-November Joe Ovelman - A.R.T./Art Resources Transfer (210 Eleventh Ave. 4th fl., New York)

2000 October 4 reception and book signing for The clandestine mind by John Dugdale - Wessel + O’Connor Gallery (242 W. 26th St., New York 10001 212-242-8811 http://www.wesseloconnor.com)

2000 October 10-November 11 “Doug Jeck” - Garth Clark Gallery (24 W. 57th St., New York 10019 212-246-2205 http://www.garthclark.com)

2000 October 11-January 7, 2001 “Isaac Julien: Vagabondia” - Studio Museum in Harlem, New York - installation of a film set in the Soane Museum, London

2000 October 11-January 21, 2001 “Amazons in the drawing room: the art of Romaine Brooks” - Berkeley Art Museum, University of California Berkeley

2000 October 12-November 12 “Cowboys and Indians: brave in the West” - photographs by Wouter Deruytter - Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York

2000 October 12-November 22 “Très complémentaires: the art and lives of Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire” - Mary Ryan Gallery (24 W. 57th St., New York 10019 212-397-0669)

2000 October 14-November 10 “Andy Warhol: Campbell’s soup box paintings” - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (7, rue Debelleyme, Paris)

2000 October 17-December 2 “Hugh Steers: early works” - Richard Anderson Fine Art (453 W. 17th St., New York 10011 212-463-0970)

2000 October 17-January 6, 2001 “David Hockney: prints” - Susan Sheehan Gallery (20 W. 57th St., New York 10019 212-489-3331) - mostly from “The blue guitar” (Picasso)

2000 October 21-November 25 “Zoe Leonard” - Paula Cooper Gallery (534 W. 21st St., New York 10011)

2000 October 21-January 7, 2001 “Isaac Julien: The last road to Mazatlan” - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2000 October 26 “The wandering eye” - lecture and slide show by Catherine Opie who now teaches at Yale and lives in Brooklyn, with response by Linda Nochlin - sponsored by NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality

2000 October 26-November 26 “James Teschner: paintings and works on paper” - Barbara Ann Levy Gallery (453 W. 17th St., New York 10011 212-645-7810)

2000 October 30 “Sexy pictures: a personal approach to erotic imagery” - 3-hour course by Tee A. Corinne at Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, San Francisco

2000 November 2-January 6, 2001 “Jack Pierson” - Cheim & Read (521 W. 23rd St., New York 212-242-7727)

2000 November 2-January 13, 2001 “Sensual lines: American figurative drawings” - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (24 W. 57th St., New York 10019 212-247-0082 http://www.michaelrosenfeldart.com - Cadmus, Nevelson, Tchelitchew, et al.

2000 November 2-January 13, 2001 “Nancy Grossman, loud whispers: four decades of assemblage, collage, and sculpture” - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York (exhibition to be shown also at Greenville County Museum of Art, starting February 9)- catalog available from the gallery (see “About books” below)

2000 November 4-January 28, 2001 “Chorus of light: photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection” - High Museum of Art, Atlanta

2000 November 5 “Postcards from the edge” - fundraiser for Visual AIDS - Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York - 340 postcard-sized works for sale at $50 each

2000 November 8 “The artist as curator” - workshop with speaker Devorah Sperber, sponsored by Art Group for Lesbian + Gay Artists, New York (see “Calls” for fuller address information)

2000 November 9-29 “Sensual nature” - ArtsForum (24 W. 57th St., New York 10019 212-333-5952 http://artsforumonline.com) - includes staged photographs by Dimitris Yeros with nude males connected or juxtaposed to animals (snails, butterflies, etc.)

2000 November 11-December 9 “Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat” - Tony Shafrazi Gallery (119 Wooster St., New York)

2000 November 11-January 29, 2001 Nell Blaine, Fairfield Porter and Larry Rivers included in 17-person show at Center for Figurative Painting (115 W. 30th St., Suite 202, New York)

2000 November 14 “Kabildo del Arte: total identikit” - a special night of latino/a performance art - Thompson Center Auditorium, NYU Law School, New York

2000 November 14-24 “Contrary-wise” - MFA exhibition by Georgie Dinhaupt - Hellada Gallery (433 East First St., Long Beach, CA 90802 562-983-5646)

2000 November 14-December 22 “Hard heart, cold hands: sculpture now” - Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation (127-B Spring St., New York 10012 212-673-7007 http://www.leslie-lohman.org) - with works by Russell Benson, Cassandra, Greg Dawson, Antonio Ferrer, Doug Holtquist, Robert Irwin, Mike Leckie, Rene Melchor, Neoboy, Robert W. Newton

2000 November 15-December 16 “Something happened” - curated by Sally Berger - Apex Art Curatorial Program (291 Church St., New York 10013 212-431-5270 http://apexart.org

2000 November 15-December 29 “George Tooker” - DC Moore Gallery (724 Fifth Ave., New York 10019 212-247-2111)

2000 November 17-January 7, 2001 “John Dugdale” - Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York

2000 November 17-January 16, 2001 “Sites unseen--Shimon Attie: photographs and public projects, 1992-1998” - curated by Ellen Fleurer - Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

2000 November 18-February 4, 2001 “Catherine Opie” - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2000 November 21-30 “Crisperanto 2000: Quentin Crisp” - a gathering of photographs and paintings by Jean Harvey, Martin Fishman, Phillip Ward, Spider Webb, and Sal Monetti on the one-year anniversary of Crisp’s death - The Emerging Collector (62 Second Ave., New York 10003)

2000 November 30 “Raft of the Medusa” - performance by Jeffery Byrd - Waterloo Center for the Arts (225 Commercial St., Waterloo, Iowa) - repeated December 1 at Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames

2000 November 30 “New beginnings: celebrating life through art on World AIDS Day” - Independent Arts Gallery, Queens Independent Living Center (140-40 Queens Blvd., Jamaica, NY 11435)

2000 November 30-January 6, 2001 “Bruce Weber: shufly” - Robert Miller Gallery (524 W. 26th St., New York)

2000 December 1 Visual AIDS Archive Project reception in recognition of Day Without Art/World AIDS Day, including launch of Bodies of resistance and “Positively art 2001” calendar - Artists Space (38 Greene St., 3rd floor, New York 10013)

2000 December 1-9 “Fever in the archive: AIDS activist videotapes from the Royal S. Marks collection” - curated by Jim Hubbard - Guggenheim Museum, New York

2000 December 1-January 13, 2001 “Tibor de Nagy Gallery: selections from the first fifty years, 1950-2000” - Tibor de Nagy Gallery (724 Fifth Ave., New York 10019 212-262-5050) - including the wonderful nude portrait of Frank O’Hara by Larry Rivers (from the artist’s collection) and works by Fairfield Porter, Joe Brainard and Frank O’Hara

2000 December 4 “Who cares? AIDS, activism, and the arts” - panel discussion moderated by Robert Atkins - New School University, New York

2000 December 8 “Artist’s voice: Isaac Julien” - panel discussion with Isaac Julien, Coco Fusco (artist/critic), and Chrissie Iles (curator at Whitney), moderated by Thelma Golden (deputy director at Studio Museum) - Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

2000 December 8-January 28, 2001 “Lightbox: an exhibition of the Visual AIDS Archive Project” - Robeson Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark campus (350 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Newark, NJ 07102 http://rutgers-newark.rutgers.edu/occ/robesonart.htm) - panel discussion on January 23

2000 December 12 James Saslow discussion of his book Pictures and passions - Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center, New York

2000 December 14-March 18, 2001 “John Singer Sargent: the sensualist” - Seattle Art Museum

2000 December 15-February 18, 2001 “Morris Graves: beauty -- seeing then, seeing now, seeing beyond” - Morris Graves Museum of Art (636 F St., Eureka, CA)

2000 December 16-January 20, 2001 “Artists who make ‘pieces’” - curated by Dave Muller - Andrew Kreps Gallery (516 W. 20th St., New York 212-741-8849) - includes works by Hiroshi Sunairi

2000 through December “Rome’s World Pride: an eternal struggle” - photos by Michael Luongo - Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center, New York

2001 January 5-7 “Gender and conflict in the Middle Ages” - conference sponsored by Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York (England) http://www.york.ac.uk.inst/ cms/centre/conference2000.htm

2001 January 12-February 16 “Andy Warhol: Prettywomen” - Dorothy Blau Gallery (1088 Kane Concourse, Bay Harbor Islands, FL 33154)

2001 January 12-February 18 “Ron van Dongen: Vulgaris” - Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York

2001 January 15-February 15 “Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, 1989” - Baldwin Gallery (209 S. Galena St., Aspen, CO)

2001 January 16-February 17 “Founder’s choice IV: Jorge Posada” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York - curator’s and artist’s talk on February 2, 7 p.m. http://www.leslie-lohman.org

2001 January 27-April 22 “AA Bronson: negative thoughts” - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago - Bronson was a co-founder of the Toronto-based art collective General Idea

2001 through Janury 28 “Juvenilia” - photographs by Tracey Moffatt - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission St., San Francisco, CA 94103)

2001 January 28-April 8 “Deborah Kass: Warhol Project” - Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

2001 February “Nell Blaine” - Tibor de Nagy Gallery (724 Fifth Ave., New York 10019)

2001 February 3-May 20 “Gilbert & George: nineteen ninety nine” - Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2001 February 9-April 8 “Nancy Grossman: loud whispers” - Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, S.C.

2001 February 13-May 7 “Sites unseen--Shimon Attie: photographs and public projects, 1992-1998” - California Center for the Arts, Escondido

2001 to February 19 “Andy Warhol: social observer” - Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington (organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)

2001 February 19-March 22 “Queer art: constructions of gay & lesbian identity” - Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA 95211

2001 February 28-March 3 College Art Association, annual conference, Chicago

2001 March 22-June 23 “Nell Blaine: sensations of nature” - University of Richmond Museums, in conjunction with Marsh Art Gallery at University of Richmond and the Cape Ann Historical Museum, Gloucester, Mass. Blaine (1922-1996) was a native of Richmond and this is the first major retrospective since her death

2001 March 30-31 “Roman bodies: metamorphoses, mutilation and martyrdom” - conference organized by Andrew Hopkins - proposals for papers were due 1 December 2000 - more info from Andrew Hopkins, British School at Rome, via Gramsci 61, 00197 Roma, Italia - a.hopkins@flashnet.it

2001 April 3-21 “Investigations” - works by Daniel Heyman - 55 Mercer Gallery (55 Mercer St., New York) - reception on Saturday, April 7, 5-7 p.m.

2001 April 19-21 “Exhibiting culture/displaying race” - 16th annual conference of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Oregon - more info at http://oregon.uoregon.edu/~incs2001/

2001 April 27-29 “Making spaces: travels, tourism, geographies, and the construction of place in the Americas” - spring conference of New England American Studies Association - proposals due 10 January 2001 - more info from sweeting@bu.edu (Adam Sweeting, NEASA Program Committee Chair, Boston University)

2001 May 6-10 American Association of Museums annual conference, Saint Louis - for more information on queer and diversity issues, see the Diversity Coalition website at http://aamdiversitycoalition.homestead. com/homepage.html

2001 May 8-26 Exhibition of paintings by Lenore Chinn - at the United States of Asian America Festival 2001 sponsored by Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, at South of Market Cultural Center (SomArts), Bay Gallery (934 Brannan St., San Francisco, CA 94103 http://www.somArts.org) - reception, May 10, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

2001 May 24-27 “Re-conditioning the queer” - session at Society for Cinema Studies conference, sponsored by SCS Queer Caucus, Washington, DC - deadline for proposals was 31 August 2000; more info on the caucus’s web page at http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/dagersterner/SCSQueerCaucus.html


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