Courtesy of Christina Quarles / Regen ProjectsĬAMH’s take on Stonewall will look both backward and forward, using the works of 16 queer artists to provide local, national, international and intergenerational snapshots of the continuing struggle for LGBTQ rights.
(April 21 - July 21)Ĭontemporary Arts Museum Houston "We All We Are, 2018" by Christina Quarles. Featuring more than 150 works, this expansive show focuses on openly LGBTQ artists like Nan Goldin, Holly Hughes, Tim Miller, Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie and Andy Warhol, as well as on how non-queer artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Karen Finley interacted with the newly emerging post-Stonewall queer subculture. Incredibly for the first time anywhere, this show will showcase the direct impact of the Stonewall riots on artists and their art. Courtesy of Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York Andy Warhol is among the artists featured in the "Art After Stonewall" show. This first-of-its-kind show explores Kirstein’s sweeping contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s and ’40s, and his tastemaking role at the hub of a very queer network of New York artists, intimates and collaborators.
Walker Evans Archive at The Metropolitan Museum of Artįew people are as important to the development of American dance as writer and impresario Lincoln Kirstein, co-founder of the New York City Ballet, and a key figure in the early history of MoMA. Museum of Modern Art, New York "Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)" by Lincoln Kirstein.
Other items from the library’s vast queer history holdings will also be on display. The first of several exhibitions to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, this NYPL show will focus on LGBTQ life and activism from 1965 to 1975, via the pioneering work of photojournalists Kay Tobin Lahusen and Diana Davies, who captured key events of the decade that helped change the ways LGBTQ people perceive themselves. New York Public Library "Demonstration at City Hall, New York," 1973. Seattle artist Jody Kuehner, best known locally for her gender-blurring drag persona Cherdonna Shinatra, presents a brightly colored, multi-textural installation, in which she and her troupe of all-queer dancers present daily performances, using drag, dance, clowning and sheer joy to counteract the dismal state of the world and its constant attacks on femme and queer identities. (Through March 1)įrye Art Museum, Seattle Jody Kuehner and her troupe of all-queer dancers in the artist's brightly colored, multi-textual installation. In this groundbreaking exhibition, a selection of the museum’s trans art and memorabilia, thus far interpreted and catalogued only through a cisgender (non-transgender) gaze, is presented for reinterpretation by trans voices. The world’s first gay-specific museum, Berlin’s Schwules Museum, has over three decades amassed an enormous and diverse collection of materials, including a large number of items relating to trans history. Schwules Museum, Berlin A selection of the Schwules Museum trans art and memorabilia Chris Paxton