Galleries and Museums
Artist Profiles & Reviews: Arts (Performance & Visual), Gallery Exhibits, & Festivals
Goddesses Not Forgotten: ‘The Sister Chapel’ is Revived in New Jersey
Once controversial feminist retelling of creation “The Sister Chapel” is revived in its fully envisioned form nearly 40 years later.
Some of the artists whose works were displayed and who also served as models, such as Cynthia Mailman, were present for the opening reception March 31.
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Annie Continues The Story Of ‘Women’
Famed Photographer Annie Leibovitz’s ‘Women’ Return With A New Generation On A Global Tour by Heather Cassell A line had already been formed long before Mel and I arrived at 649 Old Mason Street in San Francisco’s Presidio to take in Annie Leibovitz’s “Women: New Portraits” exhibit on April 3. The exhibit is a continuation […]
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Derogatory Words Against Women Explored By Anna Friemoth
Have you ever thought about the words used to describe certain women?
Fine Art Photographer Anna Friemoth has. The result is Words for Women her first solo show in New York at the Gallery 151 (132 West 18th Street; ; Gallery151.com) in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood on display until March 18.
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Exhibit Of Rare Womynist Posters Opens In San Francisco
Second to third wave feminists (womynists) of color are being celebrated with an exhibit “Feminists to Feministas: Women of Color in Prints and Posters” in San Francisco, California.
The exhibit opens with a reception, 7 to 9 p.m., at the San Francisco GLBT History Museum (4127 18th Street; 415-621-1107; GLBTHistory.org/Museum) tomorrow in the Castro.
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OUTsider Festival Keeps Austin Weird And Innovative
Austin is getting hot and heavy this weekend as queer artists pour into the capital of Texas for its second annual OUTsider Festival and Conference, themed “Sex in Public.”
The four-day festival and conference brings together LGBTQ and ally artists from all artistic disciplines from around the world to talk about their work, projects, and to inspire each other opened last night, but it runs through Sunday, February 21.
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Queer History Caught On Film In ‘Daily and Transcendent’ Exhibit
San Francisco’s queer community is getting a look at itself through the lens of two photojournalists at the “Daily and Transcendent: 25+ years of Photojournalistic Portraits Exhibit” currently on display at the San Francisco Public Library’s Jewett Gallery.
The exhibit opened November 1 and is on display free to the public in the Jewett Gallery at the San Francisco Public Library’s Main Branch until January 3.
Cities of Dreams: Layla Fanucci’s Cityscapes
Surrounded by pastoral scenery it would be easy to assume that an artist like Layla Fanucci would be inspired by the natural beauty of Northern California’s wine country, but that doesn’t interest artist her.
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Napa’s Got Talent
Art goes with wine, much like cheese, so it shouldn’t surprise many visitors to the famed Napa Valley in California to be surrounded by world class art.
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Madrid’s CentroCentro Displays a Breathtaking Exhibit of the Romantic Era to Enlightenment
One of Spain’s most important and valuable private collections featuring 64 pieces including works by El Greco, Hieronymus Bosch, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Francisco de Zurbaran, and Alonso Cano, among others will be on display next month at the CentroCentro in Madrid, Spain.
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Reno is Artopia
Reno is known for many things, but having a vibrant art scene isn’t typically one of the Biggest Little City in the World’s claim to fame, yet it is catching art aficionados on the hunt for emerging talent or simply art admirers casually touring the town off guard and leaving them pleasantly surprised.
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Sultry and Sweet Foster Opens Feinstein’s at the Nikko Hotel
San Francisco doesn’t know anything about a woman’s desperate need for air conditioning in a sweltering New York summer, but Sutton Foster heats up the room causing a need for a burst of cool air at the new Feinstien’s at the Nikko Hotel in San Francisco.
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Connie Wolf Takes Helm of Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center
by Heather Cassell Connie Wolf, the longtime former head of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, started the new year with a new job as the John and Jill Freidenrich director of Stanford University’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. She followed the footsteps of the center’s founding director Thomas K. Seligman, who retired last year after […]
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