Art Review
Young Joon Kwak’s Luminescent Bodies
The artist’s magnificent, rhinestone-encrusted cast sculptures tell multiple stories that look at contemporary queer and trans existence.
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
News
Nan Goldin Sells Prints to Support At-Risk Trans People
All proceeds from the two-week sale will go to Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and the Trans Income Project.
Features
From a Soho Loft to the World’s First LGBTQ+ Art Museum
In the face of discrimination, harassment, and the AIDS crisis, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art became a beacon for queer creativity.
Art
Chitra Ganesh's Coloring Book Resists Queer Erasure
Queer Power! A Time Travelling Coloring Book honors LGBTQI+ activists and cultural icons.
News
NYC’s Leslie-Lohman Museum Gets $3.6M for Major Expansion
The New Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance also received capital allocations in a “historic” round of funding from the Department of Cultural Affairs.
Art
Fragmentation as a Queer Artistic Strategy
What becomes of the body in the work of artists who challenge cisheteronormative frameworks?
Art
Laura Aguilar’s Liberatory Gaze
Aguilar was a rare photographer who never erased herself, shifting the ethics of photographer-subject dynamics.
Art
Rashaad Newsome and Kiyan Williams Talk Art, Inspiration, and Black Magic
As part of Newsome’s new multi-part project with Leslie-Lohman Museum, the pair will discuss their “relationships to soil and earth, WEB Du Bois, and the lie of the American experiment.”
Opinion
The Leslie-Lohman Museum’s Choice to Drop “Gay and Lesbian” From Its Name Is a Great Loss
When did explicitly naming queerness become a bad thing, preventing people from feeling “welcome” at the museum?
Art
A Deliciously Transgressive and Strikingly Vulnerable Ode to Queer Sex Work
Declaring a pro-sex, pro-porn stance off the bat, On Our Backs presents diverse notions of intimacy, in sex work and the communal art and advocacy that spring from it.
Announcement
Telling Queer Stories: The Challenges of Unearthing a History
Join Hrag Vartanian in conversation with Cathy Renna & Eduardo Ayala Fuentes at Swann Galleries on Monday, June 17 from 6 to 8 pm.
Art
A Show About Stonewall's Legacy Falters on Inclusion
While impressive in its scope and engagement with the era’s tensions, Art After Stonewall fails to adequately represent the roles of people of color, trans folks, and folks with disabilities.