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Sexuality & Art

Changing the world with posters from ’68

The exhibition at MIMA Museum entitled “May ’68 and protest movements in posters” recollects legendary posters used as protesting political vehicles from the sixties. The images, large, colorful, strong show [...] Read more

QueerMuseum: In Defense of Difference

Curator Gaudêncio Fidelis on Queermuseum, his exhibition that was closed down because of pressure from the far-right. INTERVIEW SERIES: ON CENSORSHIP A visual art exhibition became the focal point of [...] Read more

Homoeroticism of the common man

Last year, in London,  I have seen,   a superb retrospective of Bhupen Khakar the Indian  painter who died in 2003. I   was fascinated. Khakar  was a modest art professor who [...] Read more

Painted bodies

“Decisions about your body, your health and your life belong to you, they are your rights, make them true.” These were the slogans of the 2009 campaign “HaceLosValer” (Make them [...] Read more

Art and Black Feminism: Rosana Paulino

  After the the “feminist occupations” of 2015, SPW began highlighting the art work of young Brazilian artists that  carry  strong imprints of Brazilian contemporary feminisms. One of these artists is Rosana Paulino. [...] Read more

Ex-Miss Febem

Ex-Miss Febem is the avatar of Aleta Valente, a Brazilian artist who lives in the peripheric neighborhood Bangu in Rio de Janeiro, where many correctional facilities are installed. Her artistic project [...] Read more

Egon Schiele unapologetic nude

On the completion of Egon Schiele’s 100th birthday, the Vienna’s Tourist Board started a campaign to promote the art exhibitions in honor of Schiele’s work all over Europe. However, the London [...] Read more

Nan Goldin and the art of desire

e dare Nan Goldin is an American photographer known for her deeply personal and candid portraiture. Nan Goldin’s richly colored snapshots capture a world that is universally human yet highly personal. The [...] Read more

Prostitution through our own eyes

On September 2017, we proudly present you the project What you don’t see: prostitution through our own eyes, developed as part of the project “The impacts of sports mega-events on [...] Read more

Stray Bullet: Grasping the void

Anna Kahn is a Brazilian photographer who lives in Rio. In  2007,  she made public the series Stray Bullet  in which she documents the phantom inscription of violence in the [...] Read more

Zanele Muholi’s 365 protest photographs

In SPW Newsletter nº8 (2010), we registred Zanele Muholi’s artwork about queer identities in South Africa. By that time, the Minister of Arts and Culture slashed a piece of art [...] Read more

Alice Austen: an LGBTQ Icon Photographer

By all accounts, photographer Alice Austen was an extraordinary woman. Born into an affluent family on Staten Island in 1866, she challenged oppressive Victorian conventions by embracing individuality and independence. [...] Read more

Our Lady of Flowers: Gender Performance Embodiment

In his performances, Francisco Camacho — Portuguese contemporary dancer and choreographer — proposes a thought-movement centered on gender, which, until quite recently, has been ignored by the academy and queer [...] Read more

Ana Lira: Arting Politics

Once  again we bring attention to Ana Lira, a photographer and artist from Recife, in the Brazilian State of Pernambuco. Lira has has moved from civil engineering to journalism and later to [...] Read more

Paola Paredes: revelations

In May 2017, Sexuality&Art featured Paola Paredes, an Ecuadorian photographer engaged in groundbreaking work centered on ‘disclosure’.  Her last photo series, titled  Until you Change  is the result of an [...] Read more
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