Tag: art

  • PETER HUJAR “one of the major American photographers of the late twentieth century”  back in PTown

    PETER HUJAR “one of the major American photographers of the late twentieth century” back in PTown

      Night and Day will be a gallery-wide curated exhibition including 19 artists at opening on July 2nd 2021 at  Ptown’s  Albert Merola Gallery. Although not exclusively LGBTQ artists, it will feature work by John Waters, Jack Pierson, Lyle Ashton Harris, David Armstrong, Stephen Bron, and Matías Alvial among others. The last two being young…

  • David Wojnarowicz TIDAL MOTION : a Pop Up In PTown

    David Wojnarowicz TIDAL MOTION : a Pop Up In PTown

      Today, June 25th, 2021,  sees a new Pop Up in Ptown. At 446 Commercial Street NY’s P.P.O.W Gallery and Joe Sheftel are presenting TIDAL MOTION a summer-long exhibit featuring a solo presentation of paintings, collages, stencils, prints, and photographs by David Wojnarowicz. Each week, Wojnarowicz’s work will be in conversation with contemporary artists, including…

  • Bobby Miller : FABULOUS  @ Artsee, Hudson NY

    Bobby Miller : FABULOUS @ Artsee, Hudson NY

    Bobby Miller has been photographing the famous, and infamous, for decades.  Each stunning image is a work of art that beautifully captures the essence of  his subjects.  For all of us that were not in New York in the 1970s to go to Rubell’s ‘notorious’ Studio 54 at first hand, we can live the experience…

  • Kenny Scharf : When World’s Collide

    Kenny Scharf : When World’s Collide

      The pop artist Kenny Scharf is a survivor.  All his good friends and fellow artists in NY’s East Village such as Keith Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Andy Warhol succumbed to AIDS in the 1980’s.  It sadly  marked the end of one of the most exciting periods of contemporary art in the form of…

  • Intimacy : New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond

    Intimacy : New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond

      The current Exhibition at the re-opened Schwules Museum is Intimacy New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond.  If you are unfamiliar with the space, then you should know that Schwule Museum (SMU) was founded in 1985 to give a home to the history and culture of gay men and their emancipation movement, their history…