Mark I. Chester (http://mchester.best.vwh.net) and Dr. Carol Queen’s non-profit Center for Sex and Culture (http://www.sexandculture.org) held a series of events in mid-September 2004 on radical sex photography and artistic freedom as part of the Folsom Street Fair. The events featured the work of New York City SM photographer Barbara Nitke. Nitke is a co-plaintiff in the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom lawsuit Nitke v. Ashcroft which is challenging the Commications Decency Act. http://www.ncsfreedom.org http://www.wireniusreport.net
Tee A. Corinne received a Faculty Excellence Award from Rogue Community College.
Patricia Cronin reports that she had a ten-year survey exhibition (with catalog) at the University of Buffalo. She received a Distinguished Art Alumni Award from Rhode Island College in Providence (CAA news, Sept. 2004).
The papers of Jimmy De Sana have been donated to the Downtown Collection at the Fales Collection, New York University.
Camera Query, a photo-text collaborative constituted by María DeGuzmán (conceptual photographer, assistant professor of English, and Director of Latino/a Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill) and her rotating collaborators -- in this case, Erin G. Carlston (assistant professor of English at UNC-Chapel Hill), Patricia Juliana Smith (assistant professor of English at Hofstra University), and Carisa R. Showden (assistant professor of political science at UNC-Greensboro) -- announces the presentation of photographs from an extensive photo-text series called “A Hard Day’s Nightwood” at a queer panel on “the unknown legend of American literature” Djuna Barnes and her famous second novel Nightwood (1936). The panel entitled “The Pre/Post Enlightenment Visuality of Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood” will take place at the Modernist Studies Association Conference, Sunday, October 24, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from 10:30 am to 12 noon. For more information on Camera Query’s work, please see http://www.cameraquery.com
General Idea editions 1967-1995 (Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, 2003) won the Melva J. Dwyer Award for best reference publication on a Canadian topic from the Art Libraries Society of North America, April 2004.
Barbara Hammer’s film “Resisting paradise” closed the HOWL! Festival on August 21st at the Two Boots Pioneer Theater, New York. The documentary will also be presented at several venues in the U.S. in September and October (see calendar) and will be screened at the following European festivals in October: DOCOPOLIS, Barcelona, Spain; OxDoc4, Oxford, England; AsoloArtFilmFestival, Italy.
Rinaldo Hopf was the recipient of the Grand Prize at a recent group show at Art @ Large Gallery, New York. He will have a solo exhibition there in January. He was commissioned by the Schwules Museum in Berlin to do a large-scale portrait of Michel Foucault for their show “Hommage to the late French philosopher Michel Foucault.” http://www.rinaldohopf.com
The Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation has added a timeline of gay and lesbian art to its website at http://www.leslielohman.org
The University of Pittsburgh announced in late August that it will begin to offer health benefits to all domestic partners in January 2005. This comes after a long lawsuit which was joined some years ago by caucus member Ray Anne Lockard.
Ann Meredith’s film “Tall in the saddle: cowgirls, ranch women & rodeo gals” won the “Best of Festival: Documentary” award at the Berkeley Film & Video Festival and screens on October 17th at Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley at 3:30 p.m.
Peggy Phelan (Stanford U) is the recipient of a 2004/2005 Getty research grant to study “Duration, repetition, and dying: the performances of Andy Warhol and Ronald Reagan.”
Marvin Taylor and Lynn Gumpert have been awarded a grant from the New York University Humanities Council for the exhibition and catalog of “The Downtown show: the New York art scene, 1974-1984.” The exhibitions will be held at NYU’s Grey Gallery and Fales Collection.
George Towne has started a new job as an Academic Advisor at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He is also taken on advising the “Queer Pratt” student group. Pratt alumni are encouraged to contact George if they are interested in sharing their Pratt and/or art experiences with the group. They may also want to do listings for future resources. Contact George at gtowne@nyc.rr.com http://www.georgetowneart.com
John Wessel and William O’Connor (formerly of Wessel + O’Connor Gallery) are now doing business at 79 Bridge St., #5F, Brooklyn, NY 11201 wesselocon@aol.com
Obituaries for Maxine Fine (1942-2003) and Ron Rubin (1932-2004) appear in The archive: the journal of the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, no. 13 (summer 2004), p. 16.