Open Tabs: 11.7.25

Projects, links, and notes worth saving this week across art, design, and lesbian creative culture.

Nov 07, 2025

This Week’s Open Tabs: Poetic cinema from Ukraine, Lesbian Witchcraft, and Which way is tomorrow?

Soul & Soil: Ukrainian Poetic Cinema

Metrograph’s latest series (Nov 8–16) spotlights Ukraine’s poetic-cinema movement, where 1960s filmmakers turned from Soviet propaganda toward myth, folklore, and dreamlike storytelling.

→ Metrograph, NYC

Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s–Now

At M+ Hong Kong, Dream Rooms traces seventy years of women artists who built entire worlds out of light, sound, and space (think Judy Chicago and Lygia Clark). On view through January 18, 2026.

→ Exhibition

Ann Carrington’s Webs

Ann Carrington makes steel spiderwebs threaded with brass insects and old coins, and one day I will own one.

→ @anncarringtonart

Ann Carrington, *Brimstone*, steel armature with brass insects.

Marfa: Inside America’s Desert Art Town

Each October, the desert town of Marfa, Texas becomes a global art hub for Chinati Weekend. Lyle Gallery headed west to explore how politics, geography, and community continue to shape creativity across West Texas. Marfa is the first chapter in a new Lyle Gallery series exploring the creative pulse of cities and communities around the world.

→ Watch

Which Way Is Tomorrow?

A TikTok by @kierajerri exploring how cultures conceptualize time differently. In some languages, the future is behind us and the past ahead.

→ Watch

@kierajerri very cool how time and space are viewed differently all over the world. It’s a reminder of how important it is to diversify your references, there’s more than just the western world . Theres great thinking all over the world

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Witchcraft, Magic & Lesbians

This post from the Lesbian Herstory Archives about how witchcraft became a symbol of queer power and self-definition in the 1970s.

→ Instagram

Liberation on Broadway

Liberation follows a group of activists navigating love, protest, and survival in the 1970s. It found me on TikTok with the line, “the only female writer–director pair on Broadway”. I saw it and I loved it. They require you power off your phone and lock it in a pouch before the show…for reasons you’ll understand if you see it before it closes.

→ liberationbway.com

Women by Women: The Shortlist

From a global open call, 150 photographers and filmmakers capture womanhood through the female gaze. You can even filter by country. I found it beautiful and inspiring.

→ Photo Vogue

Keeping Southern Iraq’s Historic Textile Traditions Alive

WePresent profiles artist Hussein Shikha, who’s reviving southern Iraq’s traditional weaving techniques. “Carpet making is a form of knotting, which is also a form of coding,” he says. “When I look at a carpet, I see pixels in the knots, like its DNA.” His work blends tapestry, digital animation, and major moments in Iraqi history.

→ WePresent

Gay Rodeo

NBC News covers the World Gay Rodeo Finals in Reno, Nevada, where queer cowboys and cowgirls reclaim one of America’s most conservative sports. The event combines competition and community, tracing a history of LGBTQ+ rodeo culture dating back to the 1970s.

→ NBC News