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Agnes Martin Retrospective @ The Guggenheim
A major retrospective of the work of the celebrated abstract impressionist American artist Agnes Martin has just opened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Martin, who many considered a minimalist, was a rather complex and intensely private person. Born in Canada, she didn’t in fact starting painting until she was in her 30’s…
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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…
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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…
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Queer ’90’s : a Snapshot of the Watershed Decade
A new movie Art House is always a cause for a celebration, but when it opens with such lofty plans as The Metrograph, then it’s sort of like a wet-dream for real hardcore cinephiles. The two screen theater opened in March this year in Ludlow Street on New York’s Lower East Side and also encompasses a…
