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Sexuality & Art

Women’s bodies in Cheryl Donegan’s performative art

Cheryl Donegan is a prolific feminist performer and visual artist, whose work is currently being exposed at the New Museum in New York . Donegan’s art is provocative, ironic and, [...] Read more

Visible and Invisible Women: ‘Pairing Picasso’ at the MFA

Sleeping Nude (Marie-Thérèse Walter), 1932, Pablo Picasso, private collection. The woman’s body is the unspoken subject of a remarkable new exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. By Eve L. [...] Read more

Nona Faustini: the White Shoes Project

The North American black artist Nona Faustini has recently developed a remarkable  photography project. . She staged a series of nude photographs in urban locations across the Unites States where [...] Read more

The ‘Family ” goes beaching

In late 2015,   a highly regressive  ‘Statute on the Family ‘  was approved by a Special Committee  of  the Brazilian Congress. Around that same time,  the  art collective Corpos [...] Read more

Women Artists: Ana Lira from Portugal

In searching for English written information on the Brazilian photographer Ana Lira,  we have accidentally found the remarkable work of another artist designer whose art also turns around sexuality. Also [...] Read more

Art and Feminisms in Brazil – Karina Buhr

 In the trails of the “feminist occupations’ of 2015 SPW expands further the space for young Brazilian feminists artists whose works reflect the spirit of contemporary feminisms. One of them [...] Read more

The art of Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1948, and died in 1985. Her early death, in 1985, in New York, triggered was highly controversial, as suspicions arose that she [...] Read more

Intersex awareness and rights

This Orchid image drawn by Brigitte Ritcher  was used in the materials of  Inter Visibilidad, Visibilidad Intersex Forum,  held at the Human Rights Commission of the Federal District of Mexico, in [...] Read more

The live worlds of Brazilian travestis

Rodobrás is a work by Virginia de Medeiros, a Brazilian visual artist who, for many years, has portrayed — in photos, videos and installations — travestis  who live in Salvador, [...] Read more

Zanele Muholi: From SPW Newsletter nº 8 to New York Times

In SPW Newsletter nº8 (2010), we higlighted 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

Helena Almeida: the body as protagonist

Helena Almeida is a Portuguese artist born in Lisbon in 1934. Her work is mostly composed by black and white photographic self-portraits in which she consciously expresses a gesture or a [...] Read more

Adriana and the “Business of Sex”

José Miguel Olivar Nieto, the author of the drawing Adriana is a social communicator. He has  a master degree in Latin American Literature from the Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, Colombia) and [...] Read more

‘I am someone, like everyone else’: A story about a migrant sex worker in Johannesburg, South Africa

  The photograph taken by @Confidence — a South African sex worker — guide readers to the article I am someone, like everyone else’: A story about a migrant sex [...] Read more

Les grandes baigneuses: a fragment

In June, 2015, SPW posted a fragment of the  large painting by Paul Cézanne that is housed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This choice was not casual. We wanted [...] Read more

Wangechi Mutu creates Africa’s Out

Since very early in time SPW has included Sexuality and Art as one topic of its Newsletter. In doing so we aimed at making  visibility to artists from the global [...] Read more
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