Art apart: set your mind free with images that are beautiful, challenging, and gay.With no fewer than eight queer-identified artists in spring's Whitney Biennial The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of recent American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, USA. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1918. , lesbian and gay culture vultures are ever more visible in high-art museum venues. Here are some choice things to see, from whiter to spring: Brian Eno Brian Eno (pronounced IPA: /ˌbraɪən ˈiːnəʊ/) born on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. and Todd Haynes Museum of Modern Art New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. October 7 Queer filmmaker Todd Haynes (Safe, Velvet Goldmine, and Far From Heaven) is being acknowledged by the Museum of Modern Art for his film soundtracks by sound-meister Brian Eno. Acting Out: Claude Cahun Claude Cahun (25 October, 1894 – 8 December, 1954) was a French photographer and writer. Her work was both political and personal, and often played with the concepts of gender and sexuality. and Marcel Moore Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley, Calif. January 26-August 7 Curator Tirza Latimer presents the fascinating story of French writer and intellectual Lucie Schwob (alias Claude Cahun) and her stepsister and lover Suzanne Malherbe Suzanne Malherbe (1892-07-19 - 1972-01-19), also known by the alias Marcel Moore, was a French illustrator and designer. She was the partner of Claude Cahun, surrealist writer and photographer.[1] She was born in Nantes and died in Jersey in 1972. (alias Marcel Moore). In the early 20th century the couple created an extraordinary series of photographs that are part performance art, part surrealism, "Acting Out" presents about a hundred works that illuminate the little-studied world of 1920s and 1930s experimental theater, in which Cahun and Moore played active roles. The exhibition travels on to the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washing ton in Seattle (May-July 2005), Colby College in Waterville, Maine (August-October 2005), and the Jersey Museum in Jersey. England (November 2005-January 2006). New paintings by Harmony Hammond Dwight Hackett Projects Santa Fe, N.M. October 30-November 27 A solo exhibition of lesbian trailblazer Harmony Hammond's work is on view this fall. Hammond, the author of Lesbian Art in America Art in America, published since 1913, is an illustrated monthly art magazine covering the visual art world both in the US and abroad, but concentrating on New York City. , has often used found objects to blur the distinction between art and craft. The Santa Fe location is appropriate: Hammond is a longtime resident of the Southwest. Andy Warhol: The Late Work New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's Andy Warhol Foundation continues to send its permanent collection around the globe. Currently in Stockholm, it goes on to the Musee d'Art Contemporain de Lyons in France from January through March. |
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