Tag: art
Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York
Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York a new exhibition that opened last week at the Museum of the City of New York looks at how the marginalization of LGBT people in the 1920’s – 1990’s also gave rise to a great deal of creativity. The show looks at queer networks that grew in…
Dirty Little Drawings
The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is the first dedicated LGBTQ art museum in the world with a mission to exhibit and preserve LGBTQ art, and foster the artists who create it. Founded in 1987 by Charles W. Leslie and Fritz Lohman, it has supported LGBTQ artists for over 30 years , and…
Art AIDS America
All summer long The Bronx Museum of the Arts has been presenting Art AIDS America, the first ever exhibition to examine the deep and ongoing influence of the AIDS crisis on American art and culture. The exhibition features more than 125 works in a wide range of media dating from 1981 to the present day, by…
Alexis Ruiseco : Reinas
After being bowled over by Alexis Rusieco’s work in an interview in this months VICE magazine, we rushed over to his website to check out more of his stunning photographs. This Cuban queer artist/performer/photographer started this series called Reinas (Queens) in Miami before he migrated to Brooklyn to continue the project and collect a BFA…
Ryan McGinley : Body Loud
In 2014 GQ magazine declared Ryan McGinley “the most important photographer in America” and they may just be right. When he was just 25 years old (in 2003) he became one of the youngest artists ever to be awarded at solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Alongside all the awards and accolades that openly…
