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Art Attack!: Ariel Schrag Relives High School So You Don’t Have To

Schrag captures the anxiety of queer adolescence, will make your heart break, make you cry.

Whitney Pow —

Feb 29, 2012

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Art Attack! Spotlight: Sadie Lee Demands That You Look

Lesbian art or lesbian artist? Either way, Sadie Lee leaves a mark.

mira —

Feb 28, 2012

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Artist Attack! Spotlight: Laura Doughtie Makes Art From Moments of Failure

“Embracing failure. Obsessive thoughts. Banal repetition of actions. For me they can be both very meditative and calming or crazed and overwhelming. Intensely intimate.”

Rachel —

Feb 28, 2012

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Art Attack! Read A F*cking Book: ‘The Last Nude’

Ellis Avery’s ‘The Last Nude’ is basically girl-on-girl fictional art history. You’re interested in it.

Amanda Catharine —

Feb 27, 2012

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Artists Attack! Ten Lesbian Photographers You Should Know (About)

From Catherine Opie to Cass Bird to Zanele Muholi, here are ten queer women with vision and talent changing the heteronormative face of contemporary photography.

Riese —

Feb 27, 2012

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Art Attack!: Tamara de Lempicka Didn’t Care Who Knew

How could you not be intrigued by a woman who proudly proclaimed, “I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don’t apply to those…

Amanda Catharine —

Feb 27, 2012

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Artist Attack!: Jenny Holzer Can’t Protect You Anymore

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

Kolleen —

Feb 27, 2012

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Artist Attack!: All the Cunning Stunts Queer It Up At Street Level

“…but I also think that part of what our light box project did was to not assume that participation in mainstream culture means that you also have to take the…

Effing Dykes —

Feb 24, 2012

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Artist Spotlight: Bex Freund Paints Life, Death, and the In-Between

“Walking through silent-movie city streets, my thoughts often turn to the many processes that I can’t personally perceive directly, the layers of invisibly embedded systems beneath the surface of the…

Rachel —

Feb 24, 2012

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Artist Attack! Maya Deren Made Her Films With What Hollywood Spent on Lipstick

I think that she and her second husband Alexander Hammid, deserve 1944’s Lesbian Couple of the Year Award for their collaboration on “The Private Life of a Cat,”

Celia —

Feb 23, 2012

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Artist Attack! Kara Walker Blends History with Fantasy, Makes You Fantastically Uncomfortable

Kara Walker fills rooms with larger than life cutouts depicting scenes of power, racism, misogyny and sexuality. She might just be your new hero.

Lizz —

Feb 22, 2012

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Art House Attack! – 12 Great Movies About Art

Films on this list star actors such as Lili Taylor, David Bowie, Cookie Monster, Will Smith and Shane.

Riese —

Feb 22, 2012