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Sitting in an intimate audience at the LGBT Community Center on a recent Tuesday night, I observed an unexpectedly inspirational conversation: three queer artists with different practices revealed their use of art as a means to construct a community, counter invisibility, and declare acceptance of t
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CHICAGO — Edie Fake is a radical punk queer feminist activist. He is currently "at large" in Chicago. Before that, he was driving around the country in a yellow school bus doing the gay performance "Fingers." At the opening of his solo exhibition Memory Palaces at Thomas Robertello, he told me that
Interview
BERKELEY, California — Marc Adelman's project, "Stelen (Columns)" has been met with critical acclaimed and controversy. It's time to hear what the artist himself has to say about the series.
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At the brief question and answer period that followed the premiere of the new documentary TURNING, Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, spoke briefly about the difficulty of understanding what a work of art means, even to those involved in making it.
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CHICAGO — The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics induces a sort of lonely feel, one that falls closer in line with Lee Edelman's No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, which argues that "the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and
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At some point, nearly two hours in, Marlene McCarty, one of the members of the AIDS activist group Gran Fury, an affinity group that was part of ACT-UP, reminded those gathered: “We were not making art.” The event was a panel discussion that took place at Columbia University on November 15, organize
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BERKELEY, California — As the grand finale for SFMoMA's exhibition, Stage Presence, which delved into the theatrical of contemporary art, Rashaad Newsome performed "Shade Compositions" (2005) in Haas Atrium, just inside the museum's entrance, on October 4. "Shade Compositions" has been an ongoing pe
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CHICAGO — I’d cruise slick Chicago boy bodies at the infamous bathhouse Steamworks if I were a cisboy, or at least marginally passable as an effeminate dude. Suffice it to say that my gender isn’t welcome amidst the mist of those showers. My desire for dick instead led me to The Great Refusal: Takin
Opinion
Last month the Jewish Museum removed San Francisco artist Marc Adelman's controversial photo installation "Stelen (Columns)" (2007–11) from its exhibition Composed: Identity, Politics, Sex. Adelman's piece, which is part of the Jewish Museum's collection, consists of 150 profile pictures found on th
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I’m going to start this essay with the conclusion. Why should we be looking for different ways of thinking about and living in the world? Because many of the dominant political social, and intellectual structures that currently underpin our society have proven themselves to be colossally flawed, so
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Wading my way through an opening crowd consisting of a bizarre combination of bearded and flanneled Bushwick hipsters, New York Times critic Roberta Smith and MoMA PS1 curator Klaus Biesenbach at Chelsea gallery Luhring Augustine's new Bushwick location, I was shocked to discover a cold screensaver-
Opinion
This week, Damien Hirst's global spot challenge, TJ Clark on Leonardo, Cairo's art scene, Green & Knight on PST, de Kooning conversation, Queer theory, vandalism as art criticism, imagining a drunk gay Jenny Holzer twitterfeed and an Abby Road spoof.