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.
2001 October 11-January 12, 2002 “Fred Wilson: objects and installations, 1979-2000” - University of Maryland Baltimore County Fine Arts Gallery - curated by Maurice Berger
2002 March 22-24 Agnes Martin Symposium, in honor of her 90th birthday - Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico - speakers, concert, panel discussion, screening of her film “Gabriel”
2002 September 12-October 26 “Maria Elena González: selected works 1996-2002” - curated by Renée van der Steit - Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Md.
2002 September 27-December 20 “Adi Nes photographs” - Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago 60605 http://mocp.org
2003 January 8-February 15 “Keith Haring: pop figuration” - Deitch Projects, 76 Grand St., New York 10013 212-343-7300
2003 January 13-March 6 “Images and actions” - exhibition of work by Jeffery Byrd, with performance of “Holding the universe” on Mar. 5th - University of Toledo, Clement Gallery
2003 January 22-February 22 “Founder’s choice VII: Robert W. Richards’ Gods of erotica” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 127-B Prince Street, New York
2003 January 24-February 22 “Exploring landscape: eight views from Britain” - Andrea Rosen Gallery, 525 West 24th St., New York 10011 212-627-6000 - included works by Daniel Sinsel who “has populated his woods and pastures with lusty boys liberated from porn magazines”
2003 January 24-March 14 “Portraits: an exhibition of paintings by Juarez Hawkins and Nancy Rosen” - Chicago School of Professional Psychology - 312-209-8661
2003 January 25-March 8 “Frank Yamrus: the Dehon ice fields” - Sarah Morthland Gallery, 511 West 25th St., New York 10001 212-242-7767
2003 February-March Ryan McGinley: photographs - Bailey Fine Arts, 594 Spadina, Toronto, Ont. M5S 2H4 http://www.baileyfinearts.com
2003 February 1-March 1 “Antisocial” - curated by Mark Wyse - Wallspace, 453 West 17th St., New York 10011 212-675-5804 - artists included works by Walead Beshty with men on ground, pants akimbo
2003 February 7-March 22 “Nayland Blake: some kind of love: performance video 1989-2002” - Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimroe County - my favorite video was the one of the black man and white man, covered with frosting and feeding each other - acts of love in a time of war
2003 February 13-March 22 “Robert Indiana: letters, words and numbers” - C & M Arts, 45 East 78th St., New York 10021 212-861-0020
2003 February 13-May 11 “Light box: a traveling exhibition of the Visual AIDS Archive Project” - Jersey City Art Museum
2003 February 14-March 22 “Robert Indiana: recent paintings” - Paul Kasmin Gallery, 293 Tenth Ave., New York 10001 212-563-4474 http://paulkasmingallery.com
2003 February 14-March 22 “Donald Moffett: ‘The extravagant vein’” - Marianne Boesky Gallery, 535 West 22nd St., New York 10011 212-680-9889 http://marianneboeskygallery.com
2003 February 15-March 29 “Keith Haring: paintings, drawings & sculpture” - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 119 Wooster St., New York
2003 February 15-April 5 “Lawrence Calcagno” - Anita Shapolsky Gallery, 152 East 65th St., New York 10021 212-452-1094 http://www.anitashapolskygallery.com
2003 February 19 “TransWorks: transsexual portraits and nudes, new photographs by Loren Cameron” - slide presentation and lecture by Cameron - UC Berkeley; sponsored by LGBT Programs and Services, Gender Equity Resource Center
2003 February 21-March 15 “Icons of pride” - recent art works of Larry Schulte - Pegasus, 119 East 60th St., New York
2003 February 21-March 29 “Jeff Burton: Kevin” - Casey Kaplan, 416 W. 14th St., New York - photos of male stripper in New Orleans
2003 February 22-March 29 “American dream: a survey” - Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 31 Mercer St., New York 212-226-3232 - included an installation by Dyke Action Machine
2003 February 26-April 6 “Same-different: on identity, integrity, and sexual politics” - Galeria Noua/New Gallery, Bucharest, Romania - curator: Frederikke Hansen - artists: Sabina Baumann (Switzerland)‚ Kaucyila Brooke (USA)‚ Catalina TM‚ Carmela García (Spain)‚ Karl Holmqvist (Sweden)‚ Sands Murray-Wassink (USA/Holland)‚ Henrik Olesen (Denmark/Germany)‚ Claudia Reinhardt (Germany) http://www.icca.ro/galeria_noua
2003 February 27 “Painting allowed: lesbian transgressions into the modernist painting field” - lecture by Harmony Hammond - Jon Sims Center for the Arts, San Francisco http://www.jonsimsctr.org
2003 March 1-April 5 “Matthew Benedict: crossing the line” - Alexander and Bonin, 132 Tenth Ave., New York 10011 212-367-7474 gallery@alexanderandbonin.com
2003 March 1-April 18 “Seeing double/rose windows” - art from the book by Jean Sirius - Bucci’s, 6121 Hollis St., Emeryville, Calif. 510-547-4725
2003 March 1-April 19 “Goldin: heartbeat” - Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 West 22nd St., New York 10011 212-243-0200. I saw this show almost simultaneously with the first day of the bombing of Iraq, making for an intense contrast with Nan Goldin’s peaceful and passionate photographs of lovemaking, with a musical backdrop composed by John Tavener and sung by Björk. Goldin’s couples include two women, two men, and mixed couples.
2003 March 20-April 19 Zoe Leonard - Paula Cooper Gallery, 521 West 21st St., New York
2003 March 21-April 12 “Adi Nes: recent photographs” - Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th St., New York 10011 212-645-1701
2003 March 22-April 19 “Ross Bleckner: paintings” - Lehmann Maupin, 540 West 26th St., New York
2003 March 22-April 26 “Nell Blaine, artist in the world: works from the 1950s” - Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 724 Fifth Ave., New York
2003 March 24 “Homoerotic art” - overview lecture focusing on the 20th century by Elliot Rabner - LGBT Community Services Center, New York
2003 March 27-April 26 “7 gay photographers from Berlin” - curated by Rinaldo Hopf - photographers: Henning von Berg, Jn Ulrick Desert, Andreas Fux, Rinaldo Hopf, Martin E. Kautter, Martin von Ostrowski, Ingo Taubhorn - Kunst(B)Handlung, Müllerstr. 40, 80469 Munich, Germany +49 89 260 5399 http://www.kunstbehandlung.de
2003 opening March 29 works by Ron Amato, Christine Callahan, Jerry Hsieh, Charles Alexander McGill and Ellen Wallenstein - curated by Barbara Ann Levy - LGBT Community Services Center, New York
2003 April-May Louise Fishman - Cheim & Read, 547 West 25th St., New York 10001 212-242-7727 - catalog with text by Tom Breidenbach
2003 April 2-26 “Rinaldo Hopf: contemporary art from Germany” - Adonis Art Gallery, 1b Coleherne Road, Earls Court, London SW10 9BS, England +44 20 7460 3888 http://www.adonis-art.com
2003 April 2-30 “Everything I know, I learned at the movies” - photos by Ann P. Meredith - Variety’s Preview Room, 582 Market St., San Francisco 415-781-3984
2003 April 3-May 3 “Lost boys” - photos by Slava Mogulin - Rare Plus, 521 W. 26th St., New York http://rare-gallery.com
2003 April 3 and 8 “Spectacular specimen: slide presentation by Del LaGrace Volcano” - April 3rd University of Southern California, Los Angeles; April 8th at Jon Sims Center, San Francisco
2003 April 10-11 Harmony Hammond speaking at National Museum for Women in the Arts and American University, both in Washington, D.C.
2003 April 11-12 “Belated Bohemia: art and identity in the East Village” - symposium at Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New School University, New York - speakers included Marvin Taylor, Ed Halter, Jonathan Weinberg and Brennan Gerard
2003 April 12-June 8 “Manic” - works by Stefana McClure, Sheila Pepe, Scott Richter, Michael Rouillard, Michelle Segre, Stephen Sollins - curated by Nancy Doll - D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, 30 Washington St., Brooklyn http://www.dumboartscenter.org
2003 April 15-May 10 “Floating in a rice bowl, dreaming: paintings, prints and artist’s books by Daniel Heyman” - 55 Mercer Gallery, 55 Mercer St., New York 212-226-8513
2003 April 26-May 29 “My mother’s an artist” - The Educational Alliance, Ernest Rubinstein Gallery, 197 East Broadway, New York 10002 212-780-2300 ext. 378
2003 May 1-4 “Dirty little drawings: weekend art market” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, 127-B Prince St., New York http://www.leslielohman.com
2003 May 1-August 16 “Ruth Bernhard, Imogen Cunningham: the art of the nude” - John Stevenson Gallery, 338 West 23rd St., New York 10011 212-352-0070 http://www.johnstevenson-gallery.com
2003 May 1-September 1 “Andy Warhol: screen tests” - Museum of Modern Art at MoMA QNS, 33rd St. at Queens Blvd., Long Island City, N.Y. Accompanied by gallery brochure with essay by Mary Lea Bandy
2003 May 13 “Roman sex” - lecture by John R. Clarke, on occasion of publication of his new book (Abrams) - LGBT Community Center, New York, sponsored by Out Professionals
2003 May 14-June 28 “Pierre et Gilles” - Robert Miller Gallery, 524 W. 26th St., New York 212-366-4774 http://robertmillergallery.com
2003 May 20-June 28 “The kiss: gay and lesbian photo annual” - 56 artists, 108 photographs - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
2003 May 22-June 21 “Micah Lexier: all numbers are equal” - Jack Shainman Gallery, 513 West 20th St., New York 10011 212-645-1701
2003 May 27 “Gay art in New York, from Whitman to Wojnarowicz” - lecture by Jim Saslow - LGBT Community Center, New York, 7:30 pm
2003 May 29 Lambda Literary Awards Banquet, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles - a Distinguished Achievement Award will be presented to James Saslow for his writings on GLBT art
2003 May 29-June 21 “Physical culture: the art of Jonathan Weinberg” - L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, Advocate Gallery, 1125 N. McCadden Place 323-860-7337 (co-sponsored by the Getty Research Institute, curated by Marc Arranaga, lecture on June 5th)
2003 May 30-June 1 “NYC Erotic Art Fair 2003” - presented by Tom of Finland Foundation - LGBT Community Center, New York
2003 May 31-June 27 National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco - sponsored by Queer Cultural Center http://www.queerculturalcenter.org
2003 May 31-August 16 “Point Blank” - works by Dusty Lombardo, Rebecca Mc Bride and Cara Gurney - opens as part of NQAF and continues at LGBT Community Center, 1800 Market St., San Francisco
2003 June 3 “When girls were boys: transgender imagery in contemporary art” - lecture by Maura Reilly - LGBT Community Center, New York
2003 June 4-28 “Adventures in abstraction” - works by Hannah Burr, Santiago Hernandez, Jim Isermann, David Kelley, Carrie Moyer - Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, 14 Newbury St., Boston 617-424-8468
2003 June 5 “I want muscle: the brawny male in American art of the 1930s” - lecture by Jonathan Weinberg in conjunction with show of his works - LA Gay & Lesbian Center
2003 June 5-30 “Touched” - black and white photographs by Eloi M.P. Hernandez - Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo (Small Gallery), Cultural Center of the Philippines, Roxas Blvd., Manila
2003 June 5-July 5 “Mark Lynch: nudes” - Edward Carter Gallery, 560 Broadway, New York 212-966-1933
2003 June 6-25 15th Annual LGBT Pride Art Show - sponsored by GALA Visual Arts - HighWire Gallery (139 N. Second St., Philadelphia, PA 19106) - GALA contact: P.O. Box 54217, Philadelphia 19107 215-925-0892
2003 June 7-September 7 “Marsden Hartley, American modernist” - Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
2003 June 8-September 21 “Sargent and Italy” - Denver Art Museum
2003 June 12-29 27th Frameline International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, San Francisco http://www.frameline.org/festival/27th/index.html - includes screenings of Ann Meredith’s “Strap ’em down” during “Butches, bois and kings” on June 12th and “Manly men” on June 19th
2003 June 13-15 “Art against apathy” - including work by Carrie Moyer - Zmelt, Beijersweg, Amsterdam http://www.anti-apathy.nl
2003 June 14-August 30 “The homo museum” - Exit Art, New York http://www.exitart.org
2003 June 20-22 “Mostly music II” - 5th Short Video Festival - curator: Joe Anderson - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York http://www.leslielohman.org
2003 July 11-12 “Culture and the unconscious: psychoanalysts, artists and academics in dialogue” - conference at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London
2003 July 26-September 25 “Cocktails” - works by Kim Bach and Hilary Lorenz - James C. Hormel Center, San Francisco Public Library - more info: Jim Van Buskirk, 415-577-4566
2003 through September 7 “The lily: loosely seen” - outdoor sculpture exhibition, curated by Nancy Azara (and including one of her works) - Byrdcliffe community, Woodstock, N.Y.
2003 September 9-October 18 “Queer men’s erotic art workshop” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
2003 September 11-November 1 “Tom Burr” - Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
2003 opening September 17 “Strap ’em down: the world of drag kings” - exhibition and performances, coordinated by Ann P. Meredith - San Francisco LGBT Community Center and James Hormel Arts Center
2003 September 30-October 5 National Preservation Conference, Denver - includes session on “Gay and lesbian historic sites” http://www.nthpconference.org
2003 October 1-3 “A pen of light: the films of Jean Cocteau” - Hofstra Cultural Center, Hempstead, NY, in cooperation with Rhode Island School of Design and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy (full call for papers appeared on QUEERART list on January 3rd and may be viewed at http://forums.nyu.edu)
2003 October 11-January 20, 2004 “Marsden Hartley, American modernist” - Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
2003 October 12 “Art, women, sex & gender” - public forum at Latino Hispanic Room, San Francisco Public Library, in conjunction with “Strap ’em down: the world of drag kings” exhibition
2003 October 13-15 “Performing the visual/the visual performs” - panel sponsored by Visual Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association, at the association’s annual meeting in Hartford, Conn.
2003 November 11-December 20 “Selections from the Foundation’s collection” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
2004 February 18-21 College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle - QCA panel: “What next? reconsidering queer methodologies” - chaired by Maura Reilly and James Smalls - deadline for preliminary proposals was May 12th
2004 February 24-March 20 exhibition of objects and visual culture - Pennsylvania State University - more info from Sallie McCorkle at smm11@psu.edu
2004 March 19-20 “Objects and visual culture” - symposium - Pennsylvania State University - co-chairs: Sallie McCorkle, Penn State and Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin