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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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Artist Spotlight: Azealia Banks and the Second Coming of the Female Emcee

Banks is an anti-glamour loudmouth chasing big-time success without mercy or apology, because, let’s face it, who has time to apologize when you’re becoming famous this fucking fast?

phoenix —

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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