Art Archives - Queer Forty

Celebrate National Crafting Month with artist Beau McCall!

March 17, 2023March 14, 2023 Queer Forty Staff 4 min read

March is National Crafting Month! Harlem, New York City-based, critically-acclaimed, mixed media artist Beau McCall‘s merchandise recently launched on sale at the Museum

Russel Tovey’s Life Is Excellent is about a great gay artist you never heard of

March 14, 2023March 13, 2023 Queer Forty Staff 5 min read

Watch the just-released trailer for the new documentary Life Is Excellent, from British actor, curator and art enthusiast Russell Tovey (host of TalkArt, American Horror

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Museum of Broadway extends Al Hirschfield exhibit

March 2, 2023March 2, 2023 Queer Forty Staff 3 min read

The new Museum of Broadway in Times Square has announced that its inaugural special exhibition, “The American Theatre As Seen

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Beau McCall’s button art approach to Black History Month

February 3, 2023February 2, 2023 Merryn Johns 6 min read

Harlem, NY-based, critically-acclaimed, mixed media artist, Beau McCall, a.k.a. “The Button Man,” is one of the featured artists in Fresh,

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Kick off Black History Month with this stunning tour of Whitfield Lovell’s art

February 1, 2023January 30, 2023 Queer Forty Staff 10 min read

The major National tour of Black artist Whitfield Lovell kicks off in South Florida at the Boca Raton Museum of

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Queer film and performance take center stage at Behold!

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 Queer Forty Staff 5 min read

BEHOLD! Queer Film and Performance Series, curated by Gina Young, Celeste Kamppila, Dino Dinco, and Juan Fernandez will take place February 3,

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New LGBTQ exhibition at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

January 20, 2023January 18, 2023 Queer Forty Staff 3 min read

I Love You Like Mirrors Do, which includes photographs and a new film, is the first in the Leslie-Lohman Museum

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Nonbinary artist to debut 12-hour art installation Canto de Todes in LA

January 20, 2023January 19, 2023 Queer Forty Staff 2 min read

REDCAT, the California Institute of the Arts downtown L.A. center for contemporary art, presents the world premiere of acclaimed Los

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The ArtDesk 100 has been announced!

December 28, 2022December 27, 2022 Queer Forty Staff 3 min read

In honor of ArtDesk magazine’s tenth anniversary in 2023, the magazine published the ARTDESK 100 in its Winter 2023 issue.

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Celebrity makeup artist Andrew Velázquez releases tell-all memoir

December 23, 2022December 21, 2022 John Hernandez 6 min read

Celebrity Makeup Artist Andrew Velázquez has created signature looks for some of Hollywood’s brightest stars including Lady Gaga, RuPaul and

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Our place at the table: Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer exhibition

November 14, 2022November 11, 2022 Queer Forty Staff 9 min read

Curator Kenny Fries writes about queer disability, and an exciting new exhibition. I am accustomed to being the only queer

Art History

Comics Corner: The historic importance of Gay Comix, Part 4

November 10, 2022November 8, 2022 Matt Kamen 11 min read

Flash back to November 1983, and the wider queer community is being savaged by the spread of HIV/AIDS. No wonder,

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Queer|Art announces new cohort for national mentorship program

November 2, 2022November 1, 2022 Queer Forty Staff 4 min read

Eight emerging LGBTQ+ artists have been selected from across the country to form the creative and professional development program’s national

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Queer|Art announces latest award winners

October 25, 2022October 25, 2022 Queer Forty Staff 3 min read

Awards honor queer artists across generations with the winners to be celebrated at the 2022 Queer|Art Annual Party at The

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Miami Art Basel season features Bonnie Lautenberg retrospective

October 21, 2022October 18, 2022 Queer Forty Staff 3 min read

Powerful images of women championing freedom from two decades of art by Bonnie Lautenberg feature in a new retrospective. The Jewish Museum

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Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art to honor Black queer women

October 18, 2022October 11, 2022 Queer Forty Staff 2 min read

November 7 is the Leslie-Lohman Gala, a night of celebration, delight and conjuring Black queer magic. The evening will celebrate

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Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival extends deadline

October 7, 2022October 7, 2022 Queer Forty Staff 1 min read

All of the contests have been extended to November 1, 2022. Even if you don’t plan on submitting a great

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Queer erotic opera set to debut in Palm Springs

October 6, 2022October 3, 2022 Queer Forty Staff 3 min read

Denver composer Nathan Hall’s acclaimed UNBOUND, a four-character contemporary chamber opera, comes to Palm Springs for its West Coast premiere in a limited