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Queer Artists in Their Own Words: LJ Roberts Survived Childhood to Champion Revolutionary Butches
LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.
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How Tessa Boffin, One of the Leading Lesbian Artists of the AIDS Crisis, Vanished From History
Boffin explained in a 1991 radio interview that she was trying to put lesbians back on the political agenda, but her risqué performances frequently drew criticism from inside the LGBTQ community.
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Figural Sculptures That Weave an Enigmatic Story of Disassociation and Isolation
Claudette Schreuders's most recent show at Jack Shainman gallery, In the Bedroom is perhaps both her most revealing and most enigmatic body of work to date.
Podcast
The Unapologetic Queerness of Artist Nayland Blake
This Pride Month, it’s important to remember the artists who invite their queerness into every aspect of their life, work, and art, like Nayland Blake.
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Sotheby's Auction House Goes Private After $3.7 Billion Sale
French-Israeli billionaire Patrick Drahi will soon own one of the world's largest auction houses after it spent 31 years on the stock exchange.
Film
Classic Films About Drag Pageants and Ball Culture Return to Theaters to Dazzle Again
The landmark queer documentaries The Queen and Paris is Burning have been restored and are back in theaters.
Interview
How Do You Build an Anti-Capitalist Streaming Site?
Nick Hayes and Naomi Burton, founders of the Detroit-based leftist media company Means Media, talk about their ambitions for Means TV, a worker-owned, completely viewer-supported streaming platform.
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Tate Britain Hangs a Diverse Display of Women Artists Out of Its Permanent Collection
The collection of 60 women artists from Tate's permanent collection, on view through April 2020, tackles the tricky terrain of museum representation.
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Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Damien Davis Likes Science Fiction and Decoding Black Symbolism
LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.
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Queer Artists in Their Own Words: Yolande Armstrong Started Painting After 40 Years
LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.
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Required Reading
This week, the fall out from When They See Us, selfies at Chernobyl, the Universal Music fire disaster, Trump doesn't read, the rot in US corporate media, and more.
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The Poetic Vinyl of Susan Howe and Nathaniel Mackey
Curated by Shannon Ebner, this LP combines recordings of poems as well as archival material from 1991 through 2018.