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Sexuality & Art

The art of Ana Mendieta

Ana Mendieta was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1948, and died in 1985. Her early death, in 1985, in New York, triggered was highly controversial, as suspicions arose that she [...] Read more

Intersex awareness and rights

This Orchid image drawn by Brigitte Ritcher  was used in the materials of  Inter Visibilidad, Visibilidad Intersex Forum,  held at the Human Rights Commission of the Federal District of Mexico, in [...] Read more

The live worlds of Brazilian travestis

Rodobrás is a work by Virginia de Medeiros, a Brazilian visual artist who, for many years, has portrayed — in photos, videos and installations — travestis  who live in Salvador, [...] Read more

Zanele Muholi: From SPW Newsletter nº 8 to New York Times

In SPW Newsletter nº8 (2010), we higlighted Zanele Muholi’s artwork about queer identities in South Africa. By that time, the Minister of Arts and Culture slashed a piece of art [...] Read more

Helena Almeida: the body as protagonist

Helena Almeida is a Portuguese artist born in Lisbon in 1934. Her work is mostly composed by black and white photographic self-portraits in which she consciously expresses a gesture or a [...] Read more

Adriana and the “Business of Sex”

José Miguel Olivar Nieto, the author of the drawing Adriana is a social communicator. He has  a master degree in Latin American Literature from the Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, Colombia) and [...] Read more

‘I am someone, like everyone else’: A story about a migrant sex worker in Johannesburg, South Africa

  The photograph taken by @Confidence — a South African sex worker — guide readers to the article I am someone, like everyone else’: A story about a migrant sex [...] Read more

Les grandes baigneuses: a fragment

In June, 2015, SPW posted a fragment of the  large painting by Paul Cézanne that is housed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This choice was not casual. We wanted [...] Read more

Wangechi Mutu creates Africa’s Out

Since very early in time SPW has included Sexuality and Art as one topic of its Newsletter. In doing so we aimed at making  visibility to artists from the global [...] Read more

Baaraan Ijlal: from dastans and epics to contemporary art

In 2015, SPW has for the first time featured the work the Indian Artist Baaraan Ijlal. Ijlal, lives and works in New Delhi, India whose pictorical  narrative style owes to [...] Read more
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