2001 February 6-17 “Jonathan Weinberg’s alphabet” - Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax - small panels (painted from 1995-2000) constituting an urban alphabet for adults, many with distinctly queer connotations - artist lecture on Feb. 9th
2001 May-June “Acto de fe” - paintings by Ernesto Pujol - Galería Molina/Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico - companion exhibit at Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York, Jan.-Feb. 2001, accompanied by catalog
2001 November 15-January 12, 2002 “Christian Jankowski” - Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art (495 Broadway, New York 10012 212-925-2035) - “Matrix effect” includes reactions to works by Glenn Ligon, Adrian Piper, Dawoud Bey, and others
2001 December 13-February 24, 2002 “Paul Pfeiffer” - Whitney Museum of American Art in “The contemporary series”
2002 January/February “Peter Hujar/Nan Goldin” - Fraenkel Gallery (49 Geary St., San Francisco 94108 415-981-2661) http://www.fraenkelgallery.com
2002 January 5-February 2 “Shimon Attie: White nights, sugar dreams” - Jack Shainman Gallery (513 West 20th St., New York 10011 212-645-1701)
2002 January 5-February 9 “Five sculptures: Tony Feher, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mike Kelley, Jack Pierson” - D’Amelio Terras Gallery (525 West 22nd St., New York 10011 212-352-9460) http://www.damelioterras.com
2002 January 11-February 15 “Glenn Ligon” - Anthony Meier Fine Arts (3007 Jackson St., San Francisco 94115 415-351-1400) http://www.anthonymeierfinearts.com
2002 January 12-February 10 “Verses” - group show at Brewery Project, Los Angeles 323-222-0222 - works by George Dinhaupt and others
2002 January 12-February 16 “David Armstrong: city light” - Matthew Marks Gallery (523 West 24th St., New York 10011 212-243-0200)
2002 January 19-February 26 “Lepanto: Cy Twombly” - Gagosian Gallery (555 West 24th St., New York 10011 212-741-1111) http://www.gagosian.com
2002 opening January 29 “Berkeley suite II” - new color photography by Ann P. Meredith - Sunburst Gallery, FCCB (2345 Channing Way, Berkeley 510-848-3696)
2002 February 1-March 9 “Carolee Schneemann: embodied” - P.P.O.W. Gallery (476 Broome St., New York 10013 212-941-8642)
2002 February 4-28 “Queer goods: collecting the GLBT culture, ephemera from campus and local organizations” - University of Arizona Library
2002 February 7-March 9 “James Romberger: night” - Gracie Mansion Gallery (504 West 22nd St., New York 10011 212-462-4111) - pastels of the Lower East Side - Romberger’s collaborative novel with David Wojnarowicz Seven miles a second was included in the Wojnarowicz “Fever” exhibition at the New Museum, New York
2002 February 7-March 31 “AA Bronson: mirror mirror” - List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. 617-253-4680
2002 February 8-March 18 “Ernesto Pujol: The bathers” - Priska C. Juschka Fine Art (212 Berry St., Brooklyn 11211 718-599-0844) gallery talk on March 9th http://www.priskajuschkafineart.com
2002 February 8-March 23 “Tseng Kwong Chi in America: vintage prints, 1979-86” - Julie Saul Gallery (535 West 22nd St., New York 10011 212-627-2410) http://www.saulgallery.com
2002 February 9-March 2 “Gary Indiana: extinction” - American Fine Arts at PHAG (530 West 22nd St., New York 10011 212-727-7366) - first exhibition of photographs by Gary Indiana, novelist and essayist
2002 February 12-March 9 “John Brainard: new collages” - George Billis Gallery (508 West 26th St., New York 10001 212-645-2621) http://www.georgebillis.com - Brainard started making collages in 1994 as valentines for his brother Joe who was then dying of AIDS
2002 February 12-March 9 “Alejandro Mazón: new paintings” - George Billis Gallery, New York
2002 February 14-March 16 “Nell Blaine: bouquets” - Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
2002 February 14-March 16 “Brice Dellsperger” - Team Gallery (527 West 26th St., New York 10011 212-279-9219) - screening of his “Body double X” on Feb. 15 at Anthology Film Archives
2002 February 23-May 12 “Being there: 45 Oakland artists” - Oakland Museum of California, Oakland - including work by Kim Anno
2002 March RISD Queer Arts Fest 2002 (Rhode Island School of Design, Providence) - included lectures by Dyke Action Machine!, Harmony Hammond, and Laura Cottingham; films by Todd Haynes; and readings by Eileen Myles, Joe Westmoreland, and Alexander Chee
2002 March 2-April 21 “Don’t call me honey: photographs of women and their work” - photography by Ann P. Meredith - San Francisco City Hall, Lower Level - public forum on March 7th
2002 March 2-May 19 “Possession obsession: objects from Andy Warhol’s personal collection” - Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh http://www.warhol.org
2002 March 7 “The artworld, community and activism: a meditation inspired by the events of September 11th” - lecture by Robert Atkins - Einstein Auditorium, New York University (Dept. of Art and Art Professions)
2002 March 7-8 two lectures by SPIR: Conceptual Photography (Jill Casid & Maria DeGuzmán) - University of Chicago
2002 March 10-April 28 “Portraits/Visions: 19th century African American writers” - Jewett Gallery, Main Library, San Francisco Public Library - accompanied by slideshow and exhibition of 20th century African American writers by Lynda Koolish on March 10, and by readings by 21st century African American writers on March 13, April 10, and April 17. Over a period of thirty years Lynda Koolish, a photographer and professor of literature, has been photographing African American authors in their homes, at public readings, in universities, and at concerts and festivals. This exhibition of black-and-white photographic portraits includes authors of diverse identities -- Caribbean writers who have immigrated to the United States, writers of mixed heritage, writers who proudly proclaim their African roots, playwrights, poets, novelists, critics, scholars, short story writers, oral storytellers, and memoirists. http://www.sfpl.org
2002 March 14-May 5 “Tseng Kwong Chi: a retrospective” - Philadelphia Art Alliance (251 S. 18th St. 215-545-4302)
2002 March 20-April 17 “Laura E. Migliorino: nocturne flesh” - Art Department Gallery, Concordia University-Saint Paul (275 Syndicate St., St. Paul, MN 55104 651-641-8494)
2002 March 21-24 Society for Photographic Education conference, Las Vegas, Nevada - keynote speaker Tracey Moffatt, panelists included Susan Ressler, Nancy Macko, Deborah Bright, Robert Flynt
2002 March 21-April 23 “Marking change in an inconstant world” - Advocate Gallery, Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center - works by Kaucyila Brooke, John Rand, and others
2002 March 23-May 4 “Lari Pittman” - Barbara Gladstone Gallery (515 West 24th St., New York 10011 212-206-9300)
2002 April Daniel Heyman: figurative work - part of group show - Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY
2002 April 5-May 25 “Memorial to a marriage” (2000-2002) - recent work by Patricia Cronin - Grand Arts, Kansas City
2002 April 13 “What is a man?: changing images of masculinity in late antique art” - symposium at Reed College, in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition - speakers: Anne McClanan, Daniel Boyarin, John Elsner, Elizabeth Anne Castelli
2002 April 18 “Oscar Wilde, Wilhelm von Gloeden, F. Holland Day: l’art pour l’art and the emergence of a homosexual ‘species’” - lecture by Allen Ellenzweig - LGBT Community Center, New York, 8:15 p.m.
2002 April 18 Tee A. Corinne & Laurie Toby Edison: photography lecture - San Francisco LGBT Community Center (1800 Market St. at Octavia)
2002 April 19-June 1 “Obsessions II: photographic installations” - Huddersfield Art Gallery (Princess Alexandria Walk, Huddersfield, Yorkshire HD1 2SU) - artists include Rosy Martin and Izzi Ramsay
2002 April 19-June 16 “BOYS: the construction of maleness” - works by Judith Düsberg, Dominic Eichler/Ninon Liotet, Keith Farquhar, Michael Hilton, Marc Matter, Barbara Naegelin, Friedrich M. Ploch, Sands Murray-Wassink - Shedhalle (Seestr. 395, 8038 Zürich, Switzerland ++41.1.481 59 50) http://www.shedhalle.ch
2002 April 20 Tee Corinne on her new book Intimacies - Mama Bears Coffee House and Bookstore, Oakland, Calif.
2002 April 30 “Sex, love, and the arts and crafts movement: C.R. Ashbee and his ‘homogenic’ circle” - lecture by James Elliott Benjamin - LGBT Community Center, New York, 8:15 p.m.
2002 through May 4 “Felix Gonzalez Torres” - Andrea Rosen Gallery (525 West 24th St., New York 10011 212-627-6000)
2002 through May 5 “Roy Blakey’s 70s male nudes: an exhibition of men wearing only light” - curated by Reed Massengill - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation (127-B Prince St., New York 10012 212-673-7007)
2002 May 7-June 21 “Salt: new works by Daniel A. Heyman” - Charter Oak Cultural Center (21 Charter Oak Ave., Hartford, Conn. 860-249-1207) http://www.charteroakcenter.org
2002 May 12-26 “High Performance: the first five years, 1978-1982” - Jenni Sorkin thesis exhibition - Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Anandale-on-Hudson, NY
2002 May 14 “Eakins as painter” - lecture by H. Barbara Weinberg - Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (6 p.m., part of subscription series)
2002 May 21 “Eakins as photographer” - lecture by Jeff Rosenheim - Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (6 p.m., part of subscription series)
2002 May 22-June 29 “Book artist’s show: verbal/visual/tactile” - curated by Norman Shapiro - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
2002 through May 26 “Pierre et Gilles: Arrache mon coeur” - Kunsthaus, Vienna http://www.info.wien.at
2002 May 28 “Secret process: Eakins, painting, and photography” - lecture by Nica Gutman - Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (6 p.m., part of subscription series)
2002 May 29-June 29 “Punchinello’s city” - works by Patrick Webb - CJG Projects (135 West 29th St., New York 10001 212-695-8338)
2002 June 7-28 “Men of color: nudes at ease” - photos by Laurie Toby Edison, co-curated by Jaime Cortez - SomArts Gallery (934 Brannen St., San Francisco)
2002 June 18 to September 15 “Thomas Eakins, American realist” - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (organized by Philadelphia Museum of Art)
2002 June 21 “Who was Thomas Eakins and why should we care” - lecture by David Lubin - Uris Center Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 6 p.m.
2002 June 23 “Thomas Eakins: painter, photographer, and complex character” - lecture by Elizabeth Johns - Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 3 p.m.
2002 through July 1 “Firefighters I” from the Firemen paintings, 1986-91 by Patrick Webb - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York (208 West 13th St., NYC 10011)
2002 July 17-August 17 “Erotic drawing workshop” - curated by Harvey Redding - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
2002 summer “Memorial to a marriage” (2000-2002) - recent work by Patricia Cronin - Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn.
2002 September 18-October 26 “New acquisitions: Andy Warhol & friends” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
2002 November 13-December 21 “Painting invitational” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
2002 November 14-16 “Queer visualities” - 1st International Conference on Queer Visual Culture - SUNY Stony Brook - call for papers in January issue of this newsletter - more info from Jonathan Katz at katzartfag@aol.com
2002 November 15-17 South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Baltimore - sessions include “Queer bodies, queer spaces” http://www.samla.org
2003 January-April 12 “Marsden Hartley: American modernist” - Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.
2003 February 19-22 College Art Association Annual Conference, New York - sessions include “Beyond ‘the usual suspects’: expanding the queer canon” (sponsored by the Queer Caucus for Art; chaired by James Saslow) and “This, that, and the other thing: objects and visual culture” (sponsored by the Visual Culture Caucus; chaired by Sallie McCorkle)