Vaginal Davis is an icon of the Los Angeles queer and punk scene—a foundational figure of its music, performance, theater, video art, and club counterculture
Her blond hair perfectly flipped, a smile breaking across her warm and open face, Vaginal Davis takes the mic, satin blue nighty shimmying. Amidst a stage of fierce femmes of…
Vaginal Davis is an icon of the Los Angeles queer and punk scene—a foundational figure of its music, performance, theater, video art, and club counterculture
Dirty Looks is screening a 1993 video of Ms. Vaginal "Cream" Davis. The restored version is from her groundbreaking zine FERTILY LA TOYAH JACKSON: Volume 1
Cyrus Grace Dunham on how the artist Vaginal Davis became a muse for a generation of queer critics and writers.
Discover the 10 art exhibitions in museums in Europe and overseas, including Moderna Museet, c/o Berlin, Art Gallery London and MoMA.
The Queen of Berlin talks drag, diversity and why she would never even dream of driving
The punk icon kicked off the New Museum’s performance series last Thursday in conjunction with the just-opened show Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon.
Vaginal Davis describes herself in various terms which lack exact definitions: “homo-core punk”, “cultural antagonist”, “erotic provocateur”, and most prominently, “the key proponent of the…
Vaginal Davis is an icon of the Los Angeles queer and punk scene—a foundational figure of its music, performance, theater, video art, and club counterculture
photo taken by Nick Leonard
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Vaginal Davis is a trickster; a hall of mirrors; an outrageous, nasty, riotous clown who shifts gears without warning. She alternately frightens, delights,
The artist has left an indelible impact on punk rock, queercore, contemporary art, and everywhere in between.
Vaginal Davis is a trickster; a hall of mirrors; an outrageous, nasty, riotous clown who shifts gears without warning. She alternately frightens, delights,
Vaginal Davis is a trickster; a hall of mirrors; an outrageous, nasty, riotous clown who shifts gears without warning. She alternately frightens, delights,
How does one do justice to a legend? As Brontez Purnell put it recently, “In the realm of punk and performance art, Vaginal Davis is the almighty mother.”
We take a look at 15 transgender and gender nonconforming artists who are breaking boundaries in 2015, in honor of the transgender day of remembrance.
For the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, ARTnews convened a roundtable with Vaginal Davis, Jonathan Weinberg, and Michela Griffo.
A reconstruction of Verner Panton’s sci-fi dreamscape, the bewitching debris of Sarah Sze, revisiting Vaginal Davis’s still-timely portrait of white supremacist culture, and more.
With 20 tiny paintings and one hefty sculpture, an unexpected pairing of artists offers a nuanced take on femininity.
Vaginal Davis is a trickster; a hall of mirrors; an outrageous, nasty, riotous clown who shifts gears without warning. She alternately frightens, delights,
Vaginal Davis is an icon of the Los Angeles queer and punk scene—a foundational figure of its music, performance, theater, video art, and club counterculture
How does one do justice to a legend? As Brontez Purnell put it recently, “In the realm of punk and performance art, Vaginal Davis is the almighty mother.”
For the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, ARTnews convened a roundtable with Vaginal Davis, Jonathan Weinberg, and Michela Griffo.
This Good News of the Kingdom Let Us Sing. photo taken by Nick Leonard
