2SLGBTQIA+ Arts

Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O'Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future.

Spanning film, fine art, poetry, and photography, these cultural forms—which Gopinath conceptualizes as aesthetic practices of queer diaspora—reveal the intimacies of seemingly disparate histories of (post)colonial dwelling and displacement and are a product of diasporic trajectories.

[Grant] positions reenactments of past feminist projects not just as an art practice, but as a model for a queered feminist art history in which discussions of queer temporalities, feminist histories, and definitions of 'the contemporary' and 'contemporary art' are refined and politicized.

Addresses the historiographic and political questions arising from the relationship between art history and queer theory in order to help map exclusions and to offer models of a new queer feminist art historical or curatorial approach.

Increasing representation of trans identity throughout art and popular culture in recent years has been nothing if not paradoxical… it has coincided with a political moment marked both by heightened violence and suppression of rights.

A collection of interviews of queer and trans artists of color about their work, their lives, and ‘making it’-- both in terms of success and in terms of survival.

The first-ever illustrated history of the iconic designs, symbols, and graphic art representing more than 5 decades of LGBTQ pride and activism.

Is the first book to unpick the construction of masculinity through an analysis of how and why men engage with needlework.

First sought out perspectives on the concept of failure from artists, activists, writers, and curators. Each participant was invited to contribute work on topics such as ableism, mental health, passing, whiteness, colonization, police brutality, and how moments of failure within these social systems can have potentially ambiguous benefits

Olivia Laing makes a brilliant, inspiring case for why art matters more than ever, as a force of both resistance and repair. Art, she argues, changes how we see the world