Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Laura Aguilar “Show and Tell”
Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell is the first comprehensive retrospective of photographer Laura Aguilar (b. 1959, San Gabriel, CA; d. 2018, Long Beach, CA), assembling more than 70 works produced over three...More »
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“Dissolution” Exhibition
Dissolution features works of art created by the first two cohorts of the annual Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship 2017-18 and 2018-19. The Fellows come from disparate backgrounds and engage in equally...More »
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“Other Points of View” Exhibition
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art presents Other Points of View, a survey exhibition that examines the mid-twentieth-century artistic scene in the Americas through the lens of the short-lived yet influential...More »
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“Uncanny Effects: Robert Giard’s Currents of Connection” Exhibition
Uncanny Effects: Robert Giard’s Currents of Connection presents the work of photographer Robert Giard (1939-2002) and the archival records that surround his practice. On view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum...More »
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“ON OUR BACKS: The Revolutionary Art of Queer Sex Work” Exhibition
Curated by Alexis Heller This exhibition explores the history of queer sex work culture, and its intimate ties to art and activism. Coined by bisexual activist, Carol Leigh, aka. The Scarlot Harlot...More »
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“Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas ” Exhibition
Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas brings together contemporary artists from across the Americas who have tapped into science fiction’s capacity to imagine new realities, both utopian...More »
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“Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989” Exhibition
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisings, Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989 is a long-awaited and groundbreaking survey that features over 200 works of art and related visual materials...More »
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Ben Ross Davis “Endosymbiosis”
Installed in the Museum’s Living Room Gallery, Endosymbiosis is a selection of illustration, sculpture, and photography that navigates the erotic subconscious produced as a result of being split between...More »
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“Male Gaze: Life, Legend, Legacy” Exhibition
We can trace the origins of the Leslie-Lohman Museum back to the summer of 1969. Along with the fight for civil rights that had spread from African American and Latinx communities to women and LGBTQ groups,...More »
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Adam J. Kurtz “Then & Now”
Then & Now is a reminder that the arc of time brings positive change, albeit slowly. The rainbow serves as a reminder to acknowledge where we’ve been, appreciate all we’ve achieved since, and work...More »
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“Beautiful Outlaws: The Photographs of Donna Gottschalk” Exhibition
Curated by Deborah Bright The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art presents Brave, Beautiful Outlaws: The Photographs of Donna Gottschalk. The first-ever museum exhibition of Gottschalk’s photography,...More »
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“ART & AIDS: 35 Years of Survival” Exhibition
Co-curated by GMHC, Osvaldo Perdomo, and David Livingston ART & AIDS: 35 Years of Survival will commemorate GMHC’s 35th anniversary and will feature dozens of works created by people living with...More »
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Barbara Hammer “Evidentiary Bodies”
Curated by Staci Bu Shea and Carmel Curtis Barbara Hammer: Evidentiary Bodies is a multifaceted exhibition-project that delves into the life’s work and resonating impact of lesbian feminist artist and...More »
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“FOUND: Queer Archaeology; Queer Abstraction” Exhibition
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art explores concepts of identity and queer archaeology through contemporary abstraction Curated by Avram Finkelstein “To be queer is to be an archaeologist....More »
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“Expanded Visions: Fifty Years of Collecting” Exhibition
Our inaugural exhibition in the newly renovated and vastly expanded Museum space, Expanded Visions: Fifty Years of Collecting, is a historic collection show with approximately 250 works on view. Expanded...More »
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“Cut Ups: Queer Collage Practices” Exhibition
Cut-Ups: Queer Collage Practices brings together works by an intergenerational group of fifteen queer and feminist artists who each explore collage with diverse, erotically inclined tactics. The works...More »
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“A Deeper Dive” Exhibition
Curated by Jonathan David Katz and Andrew Barron A Deeper Dive takes a closer look at eight of the artists in the national touring exhibition, Art AIDS America. The national exhibition features work...More »
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“The 1970s: The Blossoming of a Queer Enlightenment” Exhibition
The 1970s: The Blossoming of a Queer Enlightenment explores the vibrant and liberating decade between the Stonewall Riots from 1969 until 1980, just before we heard the first rumblings of the AIDS crisis...More »
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“Medium of Desire: An International Anthology of Photography and Video” Exhibition
Curated by Peter Weiermair Using human beauty, desire, Eros, and sexuality, this new photography based exhibition reveals that cultural differences, whether defined by national borders, sexual orientation,...More »
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“On the Domestic Front: Scenes of Everyday Queer Life” Exhibition
On the Domestic Front: Scenes of Everyday Queer Life features some 70 works drawn mostly from the Leslie-Lohman Museum collection and answers the question, “What do gay people do when they’re not having...More »
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“NEXT Magazine: 2015 Photo Contest” Exhibition
at Wooster St. Window Gallery Each year in honor of Pride month in New York, NEXT Magazine puts out a call for photographers to submit images that represent the rich tapestry of contemporary gay life...More »
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“Interface: Queer Artist Forming Communities through Social Media” Exhibition
Interface is an eclectic mix of queer New York artists working in a wide variety of styles and mediums that became friends and colleagues through social media. This exhibition emblematizes a shifting time...More »
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“Irreverent: A Celebration of Censorship” Exhibition
Curated by Jennifer Tyburczy Inspired by the creative and activist responses to the censorship of Robert Mapplethorpe’s art in the 1980s and 1990s and the more recent withdrawal of David Wojnarowicz’s...More »
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“Art & AIDS: Amor y Pasión” Exhibition
For a sixth year, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art will generously donate its gallery to host, Art & AIDS: Amor y Pasión, an exhibition featuring 45 artists living with HIV and AIDS....More »
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“Permanency” Exhibition
Permanency features artwork recently accessioned by the Museum which is currently comprised of approximately 1,300 pieces. This exhibit of over 70 objects will feature work from the mid-20th century to...More »
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“After Our Bodies Meet: From Resistance to Potentiality” Exhibition
Reflecting the ever-growing diversity of feminist art, this exhibition provides a cross-cultural examination of how artists represent the body to challenge past and present forms of oppression and to envision...More »
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Gonzalo Orquin “Si, Quiero”
The Leslie - Lohman Museum ’s Wooster St. Window Gallery will present Si, quier o, ( I do) a site - specific installation of work by Rome based artist Gonzalo Orquin . Th is installation re - creates the...More »
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“Stroke: From Under the Mattress to the Museum Wall” Exhibition
Stroke: From Under the Mattress to the Museum Wall, is a historical retrospective of sexy and erotic illustrations by artists who made work for the gay male magazines from the 1950s to the 1990s. Curated...More »
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Jade Yumang “Post-Performance Syndrome”
Jade Yumang focuses on what queer form looks like through various visual strategies in relation to abstraction, beauty, phenomenology, Kantian indifference, and post-AIDS crisis ethos. He investigates...More »
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“Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture - Installation - Crafts - Video installation
- 2014-01-17 - 2014-03-16
Queer Threads, a group show curated by John Chaich, explores notions of aspiration, socialization, and representation within the LGBTQ community through artists employing thread-based craft materials,...More »
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“Art & AIDS: Perceptions of Life” Exhibition
For a fifth year, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art will generously donate its gallery to host, Art & AIDS: Perceptions of Life, an exhibition featuring artists living with HIV and AIDS....More »
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Ketch Wehr “Emblems of Things to Come”
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art presents New York-based Ketch Wehr’s exhibition Emblems of Things to Come which will be on view twenty-four hours a day in the street level Wooster St. Window...More »
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“Nude in Public: Sascha Schneider, Homoeroticism and the Male Form circa 1900” Exhibition
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art will kick off its autumn 2013 season by exploring the German painter Sascha Schneider (1870-1927). At the beginning of the 20th Century, Schneider was elevated...More »
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Leee Black Childers “Pulled Pork: Unseen Images from Warhol’s Only Play”
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in association with The Kymara Gallery presents Pulled Pork: Unseen Images from Warhol’s Only Play, a solo photography exhibition by Leee Black Childers,...More »
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“Recent Acquisitions - 2013” Exhibition
Recent Acquisitions - 2013 is an opportunity to exhibit the work of artists who might not be included in other exhibitions at the Museum and to spotlight those donors who have contributed important works...More »
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Azsa West “Blanket”
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art presents Brooklyn-based artist Azsa West’s exhibition BLANKET which will be on view twenty-four hours a day in the street level Wooster St. Window Gallery....More »
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“Queers in Exile: the Unforgotten Legacies of LGBTQ Homeless Youth” Exhibition
Queers in Exile: the Unforgotten Legacies of LGBTQ Homeless Youth opens at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in New York City on July 17 and runs through July 28, 2013; it is presented as...More »
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Jacob Love "States"
In Love's portraits, figures emerge from darkness re-enforcing the idea that to come out as "queer" is not a single act that positions a subject as being different "in relation" to something else, but...More »
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"Paul Thek and His Circle in the 1950s" Exhibition
Paul Thek and His Circle in the 1950s examines the iconic American artist as a young man, placing him within a group of friends and lovers that provided an adoring audience and creative influence for his...More »
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"Rare&Raw: The 2013 Queer Caucus for Art CAA Exhibition" Exhibition
- Media: Drawing - Photography - Other - Installation - Other - Video installation
- 2013-02-15 - 2013-03-31
Rare & Raw will represent the Queer Caucus for Art's annual exhibition held in conjunction with the College Art Association (CAA) conference. Rare & Raw contains a combination of contemporary...More »
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Jonathan Ned Katz "Making history, making art"
The first solo show of the lifelong West Village resident and renowned historian of gay and queer history Jonathan Ned Katz, retraces the creative career of this late-emerging visual artist and underscores...More »
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"Diaries: An Anthology of Photography" Exhibition
European based curator Peter Weiermair, a specialist in the field of the male nude with knowledge of gay artists working in Italy, has selected work by eleven artists who live or work in Italy. The artists...More »
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"Art & AIDS: The Fight is Not Over" Exhibition
[Image: Carmine Santaniello "Untitled #17" Mixed media] More »
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"#1 must have" Exhibition
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art presents #1 must have, a selection of portraits from the photo zine #1 must have, on view twenty four hours a day in the street level Window Gallery. #1 must...More »
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Del LaGrace Volcano "A Mid-Career Retrospective"
Del LaGrace Volcano: A Mid-Career Retrospective is the first U.S. museum exhibition of the gender variant artist's 30-year career. A pioneer of LGBT photography, Volcano's work undercuts assumptions about...More »
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"Pop-Up Museum of Queer History Before We Were Queer" Exhibition
Queerness, as a sexual identity, is a modern phenomenon, developed in the early part of the 20th century. It is also something that each queer develops into at their own time and pace. As a history museum,...More »
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"Testimony: A Living Exhibition of Queer Youth" Exhibition
Features images made by photographers Amos Mac, Brian Shumway, Bklyn Boihood, Gerard Gaskin, Michael Sharkey, Molly Steadman, Samantha Box, Valerie Shaff, and We Are The Youth, and includes visual submissions...More »
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"In-Between & Outside" Exhibition
In-Between & Outside is a series of portraits by Sara Swaty exploring gender identity and the human form across a broad spectrum of individuals. The works were created with an interest in how cultural...More »
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"The Piers: Art and Sex along the New York Waterfront" Exibition
The Piers: Art and Sex along the New York Waterfront is the first museum exhibition to focus exclusively on the uses of the Hudson River docks by artists and a newly emerging gay subculture. It presents...More »
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Laurel Golio "We Are the Youth"
We Are the Youth is a photographic journalism project chronicling the individual stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth in the United States. Through photographic portraits and "as told...More »
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Rolf Koppel "Willing"
Rolf Koppel was born in Hamburg in 1937. In 1939 his Jewish family fled Nazi Germany for Sweden, and in 1941 they emigrated to the United States. Koppel graduated in the 1950s from Hunter College in New...More »
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Creating A Queer Museum
Creating A Queer Museum is an exhibition that celebrates the transformation of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation into the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. By recent declaration of the Board...More »
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Joelle Circé and Tango Styling Kiki "Transgressive"
Joelle Circé: Born in Montreal, Canada, painter Joelle Circé showcases several figurative oil paintings, representing the female body and the struggles and triumphs of being both transsexual and a queer...More »
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Hugo Fernandes and Joy Scopa "Becoming"
Hugo Fernandes: New York based Hugo Fernandes is showing images from his "Intimate Strangers," a series about the momentary intimacy between anonymous men. The subjects are photographed in real locations,...More »
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"Lesbians Seeing Lesbians" Exhibition
In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, the 1970s brought a feminist revolution with lesbians, not always acceptably, to the forefront. In pursuit of personal and political liberation, lesbians photographed...More »
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"Pop-Up Soho" Exhibition
The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History presents our August show, Pop-Up Soho, which spans twelve centuries and three continents, as interpreted by over thirty artists, archivists, and academics. This show...More »
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"NEXT Magazine Pride Photo Contest" Exhibition
NEXT Magazine Pride Photo Contest 10 finalists will be featured in the pages of Next Magazine and in a gallery show during NYC Pride week at the Leslie Lohman Gallery More »
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Stanley Stellar "A Photographer"
Stanley Stellar: A Photographer begins by exhibiting pictures taken by Stellar with his first Nikon camera bought in 1976. He is considered one of “the” photographers of the early period of gay liberation....More »
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Clarity Haynes and Cyndy Warwick "Portraits"
This artwork, viewable from the exterior of the gallery 24/7 at street level, is part of the window series curated by Cora Lambert bringing the work of LGBTQ artists to a public domain tackling issues...More »
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"Four Visions" Exhibition
Four painters embody four different aesthetic approaches, four different perceptions—some subtle, some declamatory, of male beauty and phallic power. More »
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Amos Mac and Katie Koti "Homo Sweet Homo"
Eight new photographic prints highlighting the transgender experience, photographed by Amos Mac and Katie Koti, are showcased in the Window Gallery at the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation. [Image: Amos...More »
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Julie Fogarty "Connections: The Portraits of Julie Fogarty"
Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation Gallery opens an exhibition of photography by Julie Fogarty in the newly constructed window gallery. Themes of gender, sexuality and identity take place in this exibition...More »
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"Art&Aids: Loving Life" Exhibition
The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation will donate its gallery, for a second year, to host, "Art & AIDS: Loving Life," an exhibition featuring close to 50 artists living with HIV/AIDS. Over 130 works...More »
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Sophia Wallace "The New Masculine"
Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation Gallery opens an exhibition of photography by Sophia Wallace in the newly constructed window gallery. Themes of gender, sexuality and identity take place in this exibition...More »
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Jonathan Weinberg "A Retrospective"
Jonathan Weinberg (b. 1957) grew up in Greenwich Village, not far from the abandoned piers that became New York’s gay erotic playground and, not coincidentally, one of the earliest themes of his art. Orphaned...More »
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"Revealed: The Tradition of Male Homoerotic Art" Exhibition
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"When Girls Were Boys and Boys Were Girls" Exhibition
When Girls Were Boys and Boys Were Girls is an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Grace Moon and Jen P. Harris. Focusing on portraiture, the artists use the lens to explore themes of romance, androgyny...More »
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"Drawn Together: Works on Paper" Exhibition
The Leslie/Lohman Gallery presents Drawn Together, a three-part exhibition of well over 500 works on paper. Curated by Rob Hugh Rosen, this show contains both drawings of men together and images of men...More »
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"Never and Rarely Seen Work from the Foundation's Permanent Collection" Exhibition
Most art institutions, both great and small, have in their collections wonderful works of art that are rarely or—in some cases—never seen. The complexities of available space, the volume of collected...More »
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Rink Foto "SAN FRANCISCO: The Making of a Queer Mecca"
Leslie/Lohman Gallery presents SAN FRANCISCO: The Making of a Queer Mecca a new exhibition of the early work of San Francisco’s most notorious queer photographer, Rink Foto. Friend and photographer of...More »
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"Passion: Lesbian Visions 2009" Exhibition
Curated by Heidi Russell (a Fresh Fruit Festival Art Show). Fresh Fruit has invited an international array of self-defined Lesbian artists to tell us what ignites their passion. Their unique perspectives...More »
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Marco Silombria "Dionysus in Love"
The question “Does gay art exist?” can be such a puerile and daft one that is worth taking a closer look at it. So, does gay art really exist? Does being gay influence the character of your work? If the...More »
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"Treasures of Gay Art" Exhibition
In conjunction with the much-anticipated publication of Treasures of Gay Art from the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation we are proud to present an exhibition of many of the artworks that appear in the book. Copies...More »
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"The Line of Fashion" Exhibition
A knowing line, a whoosh of color can define a look, sometimes even an era. The artists in this long overdue exhibition of fashion drawings -- Antonio, Kenneth Paul Block, Joe Eula, Eric among them --...More »
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"Pink & Bent" Exhibiton
Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation presents Pink & Bent, an exhibition of international artwork by queer women. The goal of this art show is to present audiences with an artistic experience that depicts...More »
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"Art, Actually" Exhibition
The LESLIE/LOHMAN GALLERY presents over 135 works of painting, drawing and sculpture by 69 artists. Steeped solidly in the classic tradition of figurative art this show demonstrates that artists can still...More »