Queer

At APALAZZOGALLERY, Brescia, the artist’s first solo retrospective mainlines virility and homosocial tenderness as a foil to abject mementos of the AIDS crisis

How contemporary artists are turning to the animal kingdom for tools to challenge heteronormativity

An excerpt from ‘Idle Sheets’, a rare archival gem, provides invaluable insights from the scene’s first historian

As an exhibition on the late artist opens in São Paulo, Fernanda Brenner reflects on the comfort she found in his delicate drawings

The Tribeca-based artist shows us the sites of queer liberation he frequented through the 1970s and ‘80s, admitting he is “such a product of New York”

At this year’s Berlinale, the queen of electroclash proves why she’s still a badass raconteur of the crass and libidinous

The artist’s paper cut-outs use subversive techniques to reveal utopian ideals

The Passages director on independent filmmaking, censorship and the dynamics of power

In a new series of postpartum nudes at Tiwani Contemporary, London, the artist paints a realistic picture of intimate moments

Diarmuid Hester’s Nothing Ever Just Disappears and Robert Glück’s About Ed offer compelling portraits of the histories and intimacies of artists, writers and lovers who shaped the 20th century

Paul Preciado’s genre-bending documentary re-envisions Virginia Woolf’s classic novel

'Love Songs' at International Center of Photography, New York, suggests that queer art is inherently allergic to telling a representational story of intimacy

Told from the perspective of a mountain lion, Henry Hoke's hallucinatory novel explores the polycrisis of Los Angeles's unhoused population, wildfires and political violence

A retrospective in Helsinki cements the erotic artist’s legacy but fails to connect the dots of his complicated life story

After a seven-year hiatus, the artist returns this summer with a startling new album of ‘true feelings’

From Fire Island to Loewe at Paris Fashion Week, the New York-based artists create queer, colourful worlds

At Auto Italia, London, David Aruquipa Pérez’s photographic archive is an intergenerational and transcultural ode to street activism

At The Drawing Center, New York, the artist presents papercut scenes of homoerotic couplings inflected with conventions of the Chinese craft

A new event series in Berlin shows the lineages connecting transgressive queer filmmaking and performance across time

A group show at Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, explores how queer strategies have undergirded art and technology in the past five decades