2003 March 15-July 6 “Fire & ice: the magic of Loie Fuller” - Maryhill Museum of Art (35 Maryhill Museum Drive, Goldendale, WA 98620 http://www.maryhillmuseum.org/)
2003 April 11-August 31 “Re-presenting representation VI” - Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY - artists included Paul Cadmus, Anderson & Low, Michael Bergt, Jon Eric Riis, Ruben Afanador, Aaron Smith, Randolph Melick, David Hilliard, Kahn/Selesnick, Forrest Williams, Graydon Parrish -- lots of homoerotic content
2003 May 1-August 3 “Dear Jackson Pollock: collages and objects by Ray Johnson” - Pollock-Krasner House (830 Fireplace Rd., East Hampton, NY 631-324-4929)
2003 June 21-August 17 “Nicole Eisenman: selected works 1993-2003” - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY - exhibition checklist with essay by Eileen Myles
2003 June 24-July 19 “Alejandro Mazon: work on vintage wallpaper” - George Billis Gallery (511 West 25th St., New York 10001 212-645-2621 http://www.georgebillis.com)
2003 opening June 28 works by Ann P. Meredith - Capobianco Gallery (1841 Powell St., San Francisco 94133 http://www.capogallerysf.com)
2003 July 2-25 “Illegal art: freedom of expression in the corporate age” - SFMOMA Artists Gallery, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco - Dyke Action Machine and others
2003 July 10 “Creativity and passion at the center: the Lesbians Across the Country project” - photo exhibit and talk by Angela Dawn - Boadecia’s Books (398 Colusa Avenue, Kensington, CA 510-559-9184) http://www.angeladawn.com/art/index.html
2003 July 26-September 25 “Cocktails: the art of Kim Bach & Hilary Lorenz” - James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center, San Francisco Public Library
2003 through August 1 “Paradise omeros” - video by Isaac Julien - Bohen Foundation (415 West 13th St., New York 212-414-4575) - reviewed in The New Yorker, June 30, 2003, p. 23
2003 through August 2 “Paul P.” - Daniel Reich (308 West 21st St., New York 917-408-9097) - 20 colored-pencil portraits of young men by Toronto artist Paul P.
2003 August 7 “Myth: the sculpture of Philip Hitchcock” - benefit for Highways Gallery (1651 18th St., Santa Monica, Calif.)
2003 August 7-22 “Neo-erotic juried show” - curated by Grady T. Turner - Art @ Large (630 Ninth Ave., New York 10036 212-957-8371 http://artatlarge.com)
2003 through August 10 “Charles Demuth” - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - small show of watercolors of flowers and buildings, none of men
2003 September 2-November 9 “Fred Wilson: objects and installations” - Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.
2003 September 2-January 23, 2004 “By the hand of Jean Cocteau: works from the Hofstra Museum collection and the Howard L. and Muriel Weingrow Collection of Avant-Garde Art and Literature at Hofstra University” - Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY
2003 September 4-October 18 “Lyle Ashton Harris: memoirs of Hadrian” - CRG Gallery (535 West 22nd St., New York 10011 212-229-2766 www.crggallery.com) - publication with an essay by Anna Deavere Smith is to be published in October
2003 September 5-October 4 “Danica Phelps: integrating sex into everyday life” - LFL Gallery (530 West 24th St., New York 10011 212-989-7700 http://www.lflgallery.com) Calendar blurb from the Village voice, Sept. 3-9, 2003: Keeping track of everything she spends, earns, and does, with green and red marks and doodled sketches, Phelps makes compulsive work that questions the value of an artist’s time. Now Phelps, who recently came out, tries to integrate her new sex life into her accounting system. She plans to live in the gallery with her girlfriend for the month.
2003 September 7-November 2 “Allen Ginsberg: beat generation photographer” - Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa. - exhibition of 34 photographs from the David Sestak Family Collection of Bethlehem, Pa.
2003 September 9-October 18 “Naked: the queer men’s erotic art workshop” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation (127-B Prince St., New York 10012 212-673-7007 http://www.leslielohman.org)
2003 September 10-14 “George Towne: the Ground Zero portraits” - Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, at the Ice Palace, Cherry Grove, NY - portraits of three openly gay men who worked at Ground Zero: paramedic Jorge Blondett, police officer Edgar Rodriguez, firefighter Tom Ryan
2003 September 11-November 1 “Tom Burr” - Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
2003 September 12 “The female closet” - film by Barbara Hammer, screening at 7 pm at Andrew Kreps Gallery, West 20th St., New York
2003 September 12-October 25 “Frank Moore (1953-2002)” - Sperone Westwater (415 West 13th St., New York 10014 212-999-7337 www.speronewestwater.com)
2003 September 13 “Devotion, a film about Ogawa Productions” - film by Barbara Hammer, screening at 7 pm at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2003 September 13-October 18 “Eye to eye: Robert Mapplethorpe selected by Cindy Sherman” - Sean Kelly Gallery (528 West 29th St., New York 10001 212-239-1181 www.skny.com)
2003 opening September 17 “Strap ’em down: the world of drag kings” - exhibition and performances, coordinated by Ann P. Meredith - San Francisco LGBT Community Center and James Hormel Arts Center
2003 September 17 “Art, sex, gender & race: the drag king revolution” - panel at Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Branch, San Francisco Public Library - panelists: Judith “Jack” Halberstam (UCSD), Lu Read/Fudgie Frottage (gender illusionist/performance artist), Anderson Toone/Frankie Tenderloin (founder father of Kinging), Melanie Corn/Jake Danger (UCSB), Junoon Walla-Nigerian, MN/Salinas (original member of The Rainbow Kings), and Ann P. Meredith [this panel was unavoidably postponed due to a triple hate-crime incident; Ann Meredith suffered a fractured wrist and underwent emergency surgery]
2003 September 17-October 31 “Queer Photo Exhibition” - The Center (1800 Market St. at Octavia, San Francisco)
2003 September 18-October 31 “Familiar men” - the first complete exhibition of the male nude portraits by Laurie Toby Edison in the U.S. - 301 Gallery at the LGBT Center, 1800 Market St., San Francisco, sponsored by the Harvey Milk Institute - artist’s reception and book release party on Thursday, September 25th, at 7 p.m.
2003 September 21 “The beautiful women of Woodlawn” - walking tour of “Memorial to a marriage” by Patricia Cronin - Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY
2003 September 22-26 International Feature Project, New York - Barbara Hammer will be a judge of documentary competition
2003 September 28-January 5, 2004 “Jean Cocteau: spanning the century = Jean Cocteau: sur le fil du siècle” - Centre Pompidou, Paris
2003 September 30 “Sodomite or scoundrel? Cellini’s unknown gay life” - lecture by Margaret Gallucci, author of newly-published Benvenuto Cellini: sexuality, masculinity, and artistic identity in renaissance Italy - LGBT Community Center, New York, 7 pm with book signing, part of Inqueery series
2003 September 30-October 5 National Preservation Conference, Denver - includes session on “Gay and lesbian historic sites” http://www.nthpconference.org
2003 October 1 “Lesbian sexuality” (4 films) and “Optic nerves” (4 films) - Itau Cultural Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil - films by Barbara Hammer
2003 October 1-3 “A pen of light: the films of Jean Cocteau” - conference - Hofstra Cultural Center, Hempstead, NY, in cooperation with Rhode Island School of Design and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy
2003 October 2-28 “Warholian world: the life, work, and icons of the Factory years” - BAM Rose Cinemas, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY http://www.bam.org
2003 October 3-4 exhibition of “Women en large” and “Familiar men” by Laurie Toby Edison in conjunction with “Bodies in motion 2003” dance festival - ODC Gallery (3153 17th St., San Francisco)
2003 October 6 “The mirror of Maya Deren” - documentary film screens on Sundance Channel at 9 pm, respondents include Barbara Hammer
2003 October 7-December 31 “Familiar men and Women en large” - photo print exhibition of works by Laurie Toby Edison - Good Vibrations (Valencia St. at 23rd, San Francisco) - book signing and slide show on November 11th
2003 October 7-January 11, 2004 “El Greco” - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2003 early October-mid-December work by Daniel Heyman: etchings with chine-collée, linoleum-cut prints on fancy Japanese papers, Japanese-style woodblock prints and gouache on paper paintings, Japanese erotic-style (shunga) watercolors with a gay twist - LGBT Center, New York (212-620-7310 http://www.gaycenter.org) - opening scheduled for October 21st (subject to change)
2003 October 11-January 20, 2004 “Marsden Hartley, American modernist” - Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
2003 October 12 “Art, women, sex & gender” - public forum at Latino Hispanic Room, San Francisco Public Library, in conjunction with “Strap ’em down: the world of drag kings” exhibition
2003 October 13-15 “Performing the visual/the visual performs” - panel sponsored by Visual Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association, at the association’s annual meeting in Hartford, Conn.
2003 October 16 and 18 “Resisting paradise” - film asking what artists do in a time of war by Barbara Hammer, screening at Denver International Film Festival
2003 October 17 “Resisting paradise” - film by Barbara Hammer screens at NYU Center for Media, History and Culture
2003 October 17-November 20 “Bill Jacobson” - Julie Saul Gallery (535 West 22nd St., New York)
2003 October 21 “Dangerous lovers: the far right penetrating a democracy” - public conversation by Noreen Dean Dresser in conjunction with an exhibition of her work entitled “Queer memorial/memory in Nazi Germany” - opening at 6:30 pm, discussion at 7:30 pm - LGBT Community Center, New York (208 West 13th St.) - with special invited guests, Irish bartenders, music from Weimar and some serious research and discussion
2003 October 23-November 5 “The art of Chelsea boys” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
2003 October 24 conversation with Glenn Ligon, part of “Conversations with contemporary artists” - Museum of Modern Art, New York - ticket required - 212-708-9781 http://www.moma.org/momalearning
2003 through October 25 “Cheney & Powell, January 1991” - one-channel video window installation by Mary Patten - Art in General (79 Walker St., NYC 10013-3523 http://www.artingeneral.org)
2003 October 25-November 29 “Isaac Julien: Baltimore” - Metro Pictures (519 West 24th St., New York)
2003 October 30-December 6 “Wolfgang Tillmans” - Andrea Rosen Gallery (525 West 24th St., New York)
2003 through November 1 “Blame Canada” - photographs by Bruce LaBruce - John Connelly Presents (526 West 26th St., New York 212-337-9563)
2003 November 2-9 “Salute to feminist artists” - National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South, New York) - co-sponsored by Rockland Center of the Arts and Veteran Feminists of America - reception on November 5th; awards dinner on the 6th http://www.vfa.us/
2003 November 7-11 “History lessons” - film by Barbara Hammer, screening at Paris Lesbian Film Festival
2003 November 8-December 23 “Glenn Ligon” - D’Amelio Terras Gallery (525 West 22nd St., New York)
2003 November 11-December 20 “Charles Leslie & Fritz Lohman: five decades of collecting” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
2003 Novewmber 20 “Outlaws: queer art and public controversy since the culture wars” - 2003 Eldredge Prize lecture by Richard Meyer - Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC - reservations required, from 202-275-2312 or events@saam.si.edu
2003 November 25-December 20 “Out from Nagasawa: Japanese style woodblock prints from around the world” - curated by Daniel Heyman, most artists are alumni of the Nagasawa Art Park Printmaking Project, Awaji Island where Heyman was resident artist in 2002 - highlighting the work of Nel Pak, a Dutch artist from Utrecht - 55 Mercer Gallery (55 Mercer St., New York 212-226-8513) - opening reception on November 28th, 5-7 pm
2003 December 2 panel discussion on “Charles Leslie & Fritz Lohman: five decades of collecting” - Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York
2004 February 8-April 15 “John Waters: change of life” - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York http://www.newmuseum.org
2004 February 18-21 College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle - see page one for some caucus activities
2004 February 24-March 20 exhibition of objects and visual culture - Pennsylvania State University - more info from Sallie McCorkle at smm11@psu.edu
2004 March 10-31 “Women en large and Familiar men” - exhibition of works by Laurie Toby Edison - Chatterbox Gallery (1185 Church St. at 24th, San Francisco)
2004 March 19-20 “Objects and visual culture” - symposium - Pennsylvania State University - co-chairs: Sallie McCorkle, Penn State and Laurie Beth Clark, University of Wisconsin
2004 April 15-20 Art Libraries Society of North America Annual Conference, Roosevelt Hotel, New York City - panels include “The queer art world” coordinated by Roberto Ferrari, assisted by Sherman Clarke
2004 May 6-August 29 “Jean Cocteau: universal creator = Jean Cocteau: créateur universel” - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec
2004 June “Queer packaging/body commodities” - Works/San Jose, San Jose, Calif. - curated by David Duckworth (duckdiva@yahoo.com)