October 18, 2019 by Katelyn Ragsdale During my final year in NYU’s MA program in Museum Studies, I interned at both the Grey Art Gallery and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. While the positions entailed different tasks and different audiences and subjects, there were also many similarities, such as the skillset required for […]
August 12, 2019 By Larry Luowei Zhang This portrait depicts the remarkable transgender and AIDS activist Marsha P. Johnson. Her resistance and outspoken advocacy during the police raid on the Stonewall Inn, which began on the night of June 28, 1969, helped spark the LGBTQ civil rights movement in America. This portrayal of Johnson by […]
June 27, 2019 by Saga Beus David McDermott and Peter McGough began working as a duo in 1980 after meeting in New York City. They became known for their blending of art and life through their all-encompassing interest in creative “time-travel.” Active in the East Village art scene of the 1980s, they created paintings, […]
June 18, 2019 by Yunzhi Pan Located in the Things Are Queer section of Grey Art Gallery’s Art After Stonewall: 1969-1989 exhibition, Greer Lankton’s doll installation Ellen and Freddie is a reflection on the artist’s own identity and experiences. Born Greg Lankton in Flint, Michigan, she received gender reassignment surgery at age 21. Lankton’s other […]
June 18, 2019 by Larry Luowei Zhang Robert Gober’s installation Untitled Closet (1989) is a unique work that some visitors may miss upon entering the Grey Art Gallery. In other words, Gober was very successful, in this case, in his stated goal of integrating his art into its surrounding environment. During the AIDS epidemic in […]
May 14, 2019 by Jacob M. Robinson Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s quick ascent to prominence in the 2020 presidential race demonstrates a remarkable progression for acceptance of the LGBTQ community in the U.S. What five decades ago began as a struggle for the most basic levels of toleration and decency has since expanded to an integration […]
Fred W. McDarrah: Voice of the Village PRIDE: Photographs of Stonewall and Beyond by Fred W. McDarrah Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue Opens June 6, 2019 Click here for more information. Fred W. McDarrah, “Outside the Caffe Borgia, at MacDougal and Bleecker Streets,” 1966. Photo © Estate of Fred W. […]
Stonewall 50 at the New-York Historical Society Letting Loose and Fighting Back: LGBTQ Nightlife Before and After Stonewall By the Force of Our Presence: Highlights from the Lesbian Herstory Archives Say It Loud, Out and Proud: Fifty Years of Pride New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West May 24–September 22, 2019 Click here for more information. […]
“Nobody Promised You Tomorrow”: Art 50 Years After Stonewall Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway May 3–December 8, 2019 Click here for more information. Tuesday Smillie (American, born 1981). S.T.A.R., 2012. Watercolor, collage on board, 91/2 x 11 in. (24.1 x 27.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist. © Tuesday Smillie
Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue January 25, 2019–January 5, 2020 Click here for more information.