Trapped At Birth
Breaking out of what we’re born into.
PHOTOESSAY: Going Nowhere
“It’s about breaking the rules just a little bit.”
Art Attack!: Ariel Schrag Relives High School So You Don’t Have To
Schrag captures the anxiety of queer adolescence, will make your heart break, make you cry.
Art Attack! Spotlight: Sadie Lee Demands That You Look
Lesbian art or lesbian artist? Either way, Sadie Lee leaves a mark.
Artist Attack! Spotlight: Laura Doughtie Makes Art From Moments of Failure
“Embracing failure. Obsessive thoughts. Banal repetition of actions. For me they can be both very meditative and calming or crazed and overwhelming. Intensely intimate.”
Artists Attack! Ten Lesbian Photographers You Should Know (About)
From Catherine Opie to Cass Bird to Zanele Muholi, here are ten queer women with vision and talent changing the heteronormative face of contemporary photography.
Art Attack!: Tamara de Lempicka Didn’t Care Who Knew
How could you not be intrigued by a woman who proudly proclaimed, “I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don’t apply to those who live on the fringe”?
Artist Attack!: Jenny Holzer Can’t Protect You Anymore
Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.
Artist Attack!: All the Cunning Stunts Queer It Up At Street Level
“…but I also think that part of what our light box project did was to not assume that participation in mainstream culture means that you also have to take the structures of visibility that come with it as a given.”
Artist Spotlight: Bex Freund Paints Life, Death, and the In-Between
“Walking through silent-movie city streets, my thoughts often turn to the many processes that I can’t personally perceive directly, the layers of invisibly embedded systems beneath the surface of the observable world.”
Artist Attack! Maya Deren Made Her Films With What Hollywood Spent on Lipstick
I think that she and her second husband Alexander Hammid, deserve 1944’s Lesbian Couple of the Year Award for their collaboration on “The Private Life of a Cat,”
Artist Attack! Kara Walker Blends History with Fantasy, Makes You Fantastically Uncomfortable
Kara Walker fills rooms with larger than life cutouts depicting scenes of power, racism, misogyny and sexuality. She might just be your new hero.
Art Attack! Feminist Fan Tees: Action Heroine Edition
Pop culture’s most badass feminists, wielding weapons on screen printed organic t-shirts. Everybody wins!
Art Attack!: The Malaya Project and Liberating Images of Queer Filipino America
LGBTQA Filipino/a America in your face!
Artist Attack! Yoko Ono is My Hero and I’m Not Sorry
It’s this moment where one has to look around and think, “Yoko Ono has given everyone this huge gift.”
Artist Attack! Boom For Real, Jean-Michel Basquiat Was Here
“A runaway, Basquiat bummed around in epic fashion, living in boxes and on the dance floors of crowded clubs, before Giuliani sterilized New York City, when it was still just as raw and vibrant as the people in it.”
Artist Attack! Gluck Was Subverting Gender Norms Before It Was A Thing
If you’d been a lesbian art-lover in 1920’s London, you might have known this woman, sometimes called Timothy, sometimes called Peter.
Artist Attack! Ivana Is a Self-Taught Force of Nature and Tattoos
A self-taught Slovakian-born tattoo artist whose surreal designs and use of colour will blow your mind.
Art Attack! Hide/Seek Tells Half the Story
This provocative and important exhibit is worth your time — even if it sorta leaves you out.
Artist Attack! LTTR Is Here to Reconstitute a New Team Under An Old Threat
“We’re getting up and on the go with no finish line and I like it.”