“No secret anymore: the times of Del Martin & Phyllis Lyon” is now on the festival circuit. The documentary by JEB (Joan E. Biren) will be shown at several gay and lesbian film festivals during the summer of 2003. JEB will be in attendance at some of the screenings.
The calendar in the December 2, 2002 issue of The New Yorker included a color illustration (by Marcellus Hall) of Patricia Cronin’s “Memorial to a marriage” at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
Maria Elena González was a recipient in the visual arts category of a 2003-2004 Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome.
Barbara Hammer’s film “Resisting paradise” saw its New York premiere during the Tribeca Film Festival, May 8-9. It will also be featured at a special screening at the Guggenheim Museum on June 11th. “Resisting paradise” focuses on Henri Matisse and Pierre Bonnard’s artistic work in the South of France during the Second World War. It features captivating interviews with former Resistance workers and Matisse’s grandchildren, rare archival footage, and lush cinematography.
A new musical entitled “Radiant baby” about the late artist Keith Haring opened at the Public Theater in New York in early April 2003. Articles about the show appeared in The advocate (Apr. 15, 2003), The New York times (Mar. 3, 2003), Gay city news (Mar. 7-13, 2003), New York blade (Mar. 7, 2003), Next magazine (Jan. 31, 2003), and A & u (May 2003).
Paul Knobel, caucus member and Research Associate at University of Sydney, reports that his Encyclopedia of male homosexuality is up to 6400 entries. All significant male homos who have had artistic depiction will be included, making it a major resource for finding out about significant homosexauls. There will be illustrations. Knobel took 2000 digital photos during a recent trip to the U.S. and Europe.
China Marks received a grant from the George Sugarman Foundation. cf. Art in America, Apr. 2003, p. 158.
Jeff McMahon, resident artist in theater at Arizona State, was awarded a playwriting commission from the Individual Artists Program of the New York State Council of the Arts in support of his multimedia digital play “A certain release.”
Outlaw representation: censorship and homosexuality in twentieth-century American art by Richard Meyer was a finalist for the 2003 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award of College Art Association.
The library and papers of gay artist and activist Frank Moore have been donated by his family to the Downtown Collection of the Fales Library, New York University.
Catherine Opie’s show at Regen Projects in Los Angeles took second place for best show in a commercial gallery outside New York City from the U.S. Chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA). cf. Art in America, Apr. 2003, p. 158
Mary Patten’s video “Letter to a missing woman” was included in the 5th Annual Video Marathon at Art in General, New York, held in January 2003.
Edward Sullivan, Judith Baca, Fred Cray and Glenn Ligon are recipients of 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowships for 2003.