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Uncovering the Queer Histories of Workers’ Movements
As bodily autonomy and workers’ rights remain under constant and often intertwined threat, The Work of Love, the Queer of Labor reminds us of what is still at stake.
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A Museum Sees its Collection Through a Queer Lens
Blurred Boundaries invites the viewer to recognize the ways in which queer art is not separate or other, but is actually always all around us.
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What Defines a Queer Space?
Queer Spaces: An Atlas of LGBTQ+ Places and Stories records how generations of queer communities have persisted and created familial oases around the world.
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Reimagining Queer Presence in Grand Museum Rooms
A commitment to trans subjects, and their queer communities, is manifested as a holding environment made approachable by our concern, grounded in intimacy and legacy, enfolding any viewer who will stop, listen, and receive love.
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In This Show, “Queerness Becomes Something You Cannot Ignore”
WOMEN我們: From Her to Here features Asian diasporic LGBTQ+ artists from New York, the Bay Area, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
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M. Sharkey’s Luminous Photos of Queer Kids in the US
The light in Sharkey’s images doesn’t so much cover his subjects but illuminates them from within.
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Andy Warhol’s Defiant Hopes for Queer Art
In an essay in “Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire,” out from TASCHEN, Gopnik argues that Warhol had good reason to believe that daring gay imagery was where art ought to have been heading.
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100 Years of Photographs of Gay Men in Love
Hundreds of photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries offer a glimpse at the life of gay men during a time when their love was illegal almost everywhere.
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Peter Hujar’s Tender, Transgressive Portraits and Why They Require Nuance
Lacking any attempts to deepen or broaden conversations about Hujar’s work, Cruising Utopia at Pace Gallery feels more like a store than an exhibition.
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Queer Art Workers Reflect: Julieta Salgado Is Dancing and Celebrating as Much as She’s Protesting
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.
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Queer Art Workers Reflect: Sarah Jane Moon Is Celebrating Pride by Painting Her Queer Heroes
LGBTQ Pride month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer art worker and asking them to reflect on what this moment means to them.