MetaFilter posts tagged with Gender and art

Trans 100

divabat — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:34:23 -0800

The Trans 100 is a list curated by We Happy Trans based on nominations of 100 key trans people breaking ground in American culture, arts, social justice, and politics. Autostraddle provides more information on the 51 trans women on the list, and Dyssonance, one of the curators of the list, talks about the deliberate focus on American trans people for this iteration as well as support for international-based lists.

Cut the World

naju — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:12:58 -0800

Antony and the Johnsons - Cut the World (starring Willem Dafoe, Carice van Houten, Marina Abramović.) [Graphic Violence]

male/female/more than that

divabat — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 23:34:24 -0800

Gender: there's a lot more going on than just "male" or "female". [some links NSFW]

Lydia Nibley's "Two Spirits"

Trurl — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:25:00 -0800

Fred Martinez was nádleehí, a male-bodied person with a feminine nature, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. He was one of the youngest hate-crime victims in modern history when he was brutally murdered at 16. Two Spirits explores the life and death of this boy who was also a girl, and the essentially spiritual nature of gender. (previously)

Emma Frost can be a problem

Artw — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:20:51 -0800

The results of the Women Working in Comics survey are in. Meanwhile Comics Alliance has asked creators how comics can do better at female characters. (previously, previously)

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth

The Whelk — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:36:54 -0800

Style Like U features an exhaustive video archive of people talking about their clothes and history and what personal style means to them and the power of self transformation. Ilona Royce Smithkin - "Thank God I'm not young anymore" Kevin Stewart - "I lived at Danceateria" Dominique Brown - "I kept falling deeper in love with the 40s" Michele Savoia - "My father, I used to shine his shoes and put on his pinkie ring." MilDred Gerestant - "She helped me put on my facial hair and I felt like I was giving birth to myself as a man" Ty McBride - I'm a giant Aryan viking, my fashion icon is Tom Of Finland." Shien Lee - "When you wear a certain style, you enter into a new community" World Famous *BOB* - "I didn't know a strong, powerful glamorous women until I met a man." Emily Leonard - "I never felt like I was allowed to like clothes."

Tubecrush

Dim Siawns — Fri, 20 May 2011 09:30:27 -0800

A-month-behind-the-times-filter: Tubecrush is a website that lets people upload pictures of attractive men they've seen on the Tube (i.e., the London Underground, for the benefit of nonUKians), along with varying degrees of lechery. It came to wider attention the middle of last month when the Evening Standard ran a fairly lighthearted fluff piece on it, but there are some who believe that this is at least slightly unkosher not only for its instrusiveness, but also because they suggest its reception has been somewhat smoother than would be the case if it encouraged taking similar pictures of women on the tube. Others offer the thought that ogling different genders is given different contexts by societal attitudes to gender, and that, therefore, its all a bit more OK than it seems. Others still prefer to examine it through the lens of art history.

“The worst is over without a doubt.”

you're a kitty! — Mon, 16 May 2011 07:27:15 -0800

Artist Debbie Grossman starts with Russell Lee's Depression-era photographs of Pie Town, New Mexico, and then Photoshops the men into women. (via) Because the images of Lee's time in Pie Town are available in high resolution form from the Library of Congress, I was able to get close to Lee's images on a pixel level. For me, working with photographs and editing them so closely in Photoshop is a kind of an intimate act. Zooming in and carving a feminine jaw out of a masculine one, or manipulating the touch of one woman's hand on another's shoulder is a way for me to access and merge my desire with figures which would have otherwise remained frozen in time. [...] Particularly because my work takes as its starting point a body of images that is Americana, that was made to be a political tool to encourage pride in this country and its homesteading, agrarian roots, I enjoy imagining My Pie Town working as its own kind of (lighthearted) propaganda. The photos are at the Julie Saul Gallery in NYC through May 21st.

Liquid Sky

Trurl — Wed, 11 May 2011 18:58:04 -0800

It’s about time people started rendering unto Liquid Sky. Its long lipstick trace is smudged through much of indie cinema. The sights we see in Liquid Sky are riding the wave of genius punk sensibility from the late 70s, but by '83 are in full morph into the weird, technological forms we love. The broad bell-bottom analog curves of the 70's had given way to neon grids and skinny ties, and it was great.

Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are

kirkaracha — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:36:13 -0800

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, an exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, "is the first major museum exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture." This is also the first ever federally-backed gay art exhibition. Lecture by curator David C. Ward. Washington Post review. Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, the companion volume to the exhibit.

Lugar Común/Common Place

emilyd22222 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:16:24 -0800

In an effort to explore the hierarchy and commonalities between maids and those who employ them, Justine Graham and Ruby Rumié created a photo exhibit entitled Lugar Común (Common Place) (pdf, text in spanish) of fifty female Latin-American employer-employee dyads. All women wear white shirts and no accessories. They sit in the same poses. There is no explicit indication of who works for whom. (via) It is currently on display at el Museo de Artes Visuales/the Museum of Visual Arts (MAVI) in Santiago.

The Century Project

plep — Sun, 06 Apr 2003 00:07:51 -0800

The Century Project (not suitable for work) 'is a series of nude photographs accompanied by highly personal and moving statements by women whose lives span 100 years. The words and pictures combine to form a powerful statement about body image, society's portrayal of women in the media, sexuality, pornography, and women's health issues. For some, this is pretty controversial stuff...yet the simple fact that women have invited me (a man) to exhibit and speak in Churches (3 times!) and on the campuses of Colleges and Universities, by itself speaks volumes about the way in which Century has been received, and what it's value has been ... '
'Life is at its fullest at 94.' - Mary.

Girl Culture - The Photography of Lauren Greenfield

willnot — Fri, 20 Dec 2002 07:28:07 -0800

Girl Culture, the photography of Lauren Greenfield explores the relationship that women and girls have with their bodies. Sometimes to positive effects, and sometimes to negative effects, but always intensely self-aware, as a guy I found myself often wondering how much of this was contrived for cheap effect. There is an underlying current of honesty in it though that makes it very effective.