ESCAPE THE SUMMER HEAT WITH THESE COOL LBGT MUSEUM EXHIBITS IN NEW YORK CITY
ESCAPE THE SUMMER HEAT WITH THESE COOL LBGT MUSEUM EXHIBITS IN NEW YORK CITY
By Brad Henry
@BradHenry
Visiting New York City this summer? If the day is so hot you could fry eggs on Broadway, cool off in one of the city’s many world-class museums.
Even better, several venues are offering one-of-a-kind exhibits this season that explore and celebrate LGBT art and culture from the days of ancient Greece to today:
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
26 Wooster Street
www.leslielohman.org
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is the first and only dedicated LGBTQ art museum in the world, housing a permanent collection in Soho of over 30,000 objects as well as a research library.
“Expanded Visions: Fifty Years of Collecting” is the museum’s inaugural exhibition in its newly renovated and expanded space. Running through October 29, the show highlights the collection started by Museum co-founders Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman who have spent more than 50 years gathering artworks that speak directly to the LGBTQ experience – work that would have otherwise been lost or destroyed.
Running through September 10, “FOUND: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction” surveys the work of 27 contemporary artist to examine queer identity by using the tools of abstraction.
Exhibit Curator Avram Finkelstein explains: “To be queer is to be an archaeologist. In order to find traces of ourselves in a world that prefers we be hidden, we excavate, sifting through our cultural landscape for ancestral signs, often times as a matter of survival.”
Admission is free, and hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12-6 pm, and Thursday, 12-8 pm. The Museum is closed Monday and Tuesday and all major holidays. For more information, call 212/431-2609 or go to LeslieLohman.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Avenue
www.metmuseum.org
Further Gay Secrets of The Met Tour
Saturday, July 15 1:00-3:00 PM and 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Gay Secrets Of The Met Tour
Check www.oscarwildetours.com for upcoming dates
Even if you’ve already visited New York’s venerable Metropolitan Museum, you’ve never seen it this way.
Throughout the year, the “Gay Secrets of The Met Tours” explore the institution’s queer treasures, including ancient Greek nudes, erotic vase-painting, and homoerotic works dating back to the Renaissance era.
Brand new tour “Further Secrets of the Met” reveals more examples of the museum’s finest homoerotic works as well as the famous and lesser-known LGBT artists who have made a significant impact in the art world.
You’ll also learn the answers to intriguing questions such as:
* Why are the penises of Greek statues undersized?
* Why is Sappho shown seizing her breast?
* Why do lace and feathers adorn male aristocrats? Were they really straight?
Tours are conducted by Professor Andrew Lear who has taught at Harvard, Columbia and NYU, published a widely praised book on male-male love in the ancient world, and founded Oscar Wilde Tours, the first company to offer tours focused on LGBT history.
Tours are offered through TheMenEvent.com or OutProfessionals.org
Cost: $55 full price; $49 seniors; $35 Met members and students.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY
www.brooklynmuseum.org
(2 or 3 train to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum)
Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern
(Now through July 23, 2017)
Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern takes a new look at how the renowned artist proclaimed her progressive, independent lifestyle through a self-crafted public persona—including her clothing and the way she posed for a younger generation of photographers who helped cement her status as a pioneer of modernism and a contemporary style icon.
In addition to selected paintings and items of clothing, the exhibition presents photographs of O’Keeffe and her homes by Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Annie Leibovitz, Cecil Beaton, Andy Warhol, Bruce Weber, Todd Webb, and others. It also includes works that entered the Brooklyn collection following O’Keeffe’s first-ever museum exhibition—held at the Brooklyn Museum in 1927.
Admission: $16 adults; $10 students and seniors; Free for under 19. Hours are 11 am – 6 pm Wednesday through Sunday.
Museum Of Sex
233 5th Avenue at 27th Street
www.museumofsex.com
(Now through December 2017)
The Museum of Sex explores the sexually and socially radical multiculturalism embraced by the New York disco clubs of the late ‘70s.
Featuring 40 images from renowned NYC photographer Bill Bernstein, “Night Fever” helps convey how these clubs encouraged unprecedented interaction between groups – where straights danced with gays, whites with blacks and Latinos, young with old, and rich with poor. Highlighted clubs include GG’s Barnum Room, Le Clique, Xenon, Studio 54, Ice Palace, Crisco Disco, Paradise Garage, Electric Circus, The Fun House and Hurrah.
The immersive installation also invites visitors to experience the freedom of those years through a pop-up disco complete with guest appearances by disco-era DJs and a full bar offering retro ‘70s cocktails.
The exhibition is free to the public and accessible without Museum admission. Open every day.
Article and photos by Brad Henry.
Photo: David Hockney drawing
@BradHenry
By Brad Henry
@BradHenry
Visiting New York City this summer? If the day is so hot you could fry eggs on Broadway, cool off in one of the city’s many world-class museums.
Even better, several venues are offering one-of-a-kind exhibits this season that explore and celebrate LGBT art and culture from the days of ancient Greece to today:
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
26 Wooster Street
www.leslielohman.org
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is the first and only dedicated LGBTQ art museum in the world, housing a permanent collection in Soho of over 30,000 objects as well as a research library.
“Expanded Visions: Fifty Years of Collecting” is the museum’s inaugural exhibition in its newly renovated and expanded space. Running through October 29, the show highlights the collection started by Museum co-founders Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman who have spent more than 50 years gathering artworks that speak directly to the LGBTQ experience – work that would have otherwise been lost or destroyed.
Running through September 10, “FOUND: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction” surveys the work of 27 contemporary artist to examine queer identity by using the tools of abstraction.
Exhibit Curator Avram Finkelstein explains: “To be queer is to be an archaeologist. In order to find traces of ourselves in a world that prefers we be hidden, we excavate, sifting through our cultural landscape for ancestral signs, often times as a matter of survival.”
Admission is free, and hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 12-6 pm, and Thursday, 12-8 pm. The Museum is closed Monday and Tuesday and all major holidays. For more information, call 212/431-2609 or go to LeslieLohman.org
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Avenue
www.metmuseum.org
Further Gay Secrets of The Met Tour
Saturday, July 15 1:00-3:00 PM and 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Gay Secrets Of The Met Tour
Check www.oscarwildetours.com for upcoming dates
Even if you’ve already visited New York’s venerable Metropolitan Museum, you’ve never seen it this way.
Throughout the year, the “Gay Secrets of The Met Tours” explore the institution’s queer treasures, including ancient Greek nudes, erotic vase-painting, and homoerotic works dating back to the Renaissance era.
Brand new tour “Further Secrets of the Met” reveals more examples of the museum’s finest homoerotic works as well as the famous and lesser-known LGBT artists who have made a significant impact in the art world.
You’ll also learn the answers to intriguing questions such as:
* Why are the penises of Greek statues undersized?
* Why is Sappho shown seizing her breast?
* Why do lace and feathers adorn male aristocrats? Were they really straight?
Tours are conducted by Professor Andrew Lear who has taught at Harvard, Columbia and NYU, published a widely praised book on male-male love in the ancient world, and founded Oscar Wilde Tours, the first company to offer tours focused on LGBT history.
Tours are offered through TheMenEvent.com or OutProfessionals.org
Cost: $55 full price; $49 seniors; $35 Met members and students.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY
www.brooklynmuseum.org
(2 or 3 train to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum)
Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern
(Now through July 23, 2017)
Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern takes a new look at how the renowned artist proclaimed her progressive, independent lifestyle through a self-crafted public persona—including her clothing and the way she posed for a younger generation of photographers who helped cement her status as a pioneer of modernism and a contemporary style icon.
In addition to selected paintings and items of clothing, the exhibition presents photographs of O’Keeffe and her homes by Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Annie Leibovitz, Cecil Beaton, Andy Warhol, Bruce Weber, Todd Webb, and others. It also includes works that entered the Brooklyn collection following O’Keeffe’s first-ever museum exhibition—held at the Brooklyn Museum in 1927.
Admission: $16 adults; $10 students and seniors; Free for under 19. Hours are 11 am – 6 pm Wednesday through Sunday.
Museum Of Sex
233 5th Avenue at 27th Street
www.museumofsex.com
(Now through December 2017)
The Museum of Sex explores the sexually and socially radical multiculturalism embraced by the New York disco clubs of the late ‘70s.
Featuring 40 images from renowned NYC photographer Bill Bernstein, “Night Fever” helps convey how these clubs encouraged unprecedented interaction between groups – where straights danced with gays, whites with blacks and Latinos, young with old, and rich with poor. Highlighted clubs include GG’s Barnum Room, Le Clique, Xenon, Studio 54, Ice Palace, Crisco Disco, Paradise Garage, Electric Circus, The Fun House and Hurrah.
The immersive installation also invites visitors to experience the freedom of those years through a pop-up disco complete with guest appearances by disco-era DJs and a full bar offering retro ‘70s cocktails.
The exhibition is free to the public and accessible without Museum admission. Open every day.
Article and photos by Brad Henry.
Photo: David Hockney drawing
@BradHenry
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