Fred W. McDarrah: Voice of the Village PRIDE: Photographs of Stonewall and Beyond by Fred W. McDarrah Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue Opens June 6, 2019 Click here for more information. Fred W. McDarrah, “Outside the Caffe Borgia, at MacDougal and Bleecker Streets,” 1966. Photo © Estate of Fred W. […]
Stonewall 50 at the New-York Historical Society Letting Loose and Fighting Back: LGBTQ Nightlife Before and After Stonewall By the Force of Our Presence: Highlights from the Lesbian Herstory Archives Say It Loud, Out and Proud: Fifty Years of Pride New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West May 24–September 22, 2019 Click here for more information. […]
“Nobody Promised You Tomorrow”: Art 50 Years After Stonewall Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway May 3–December 8, 2019 Click here for more information. Tuesday Smillie (American, born 1981). S.T.A.R., 2012. Watercolor, collage on board, 91/2 x 11 in. (24.1 x 27.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist. © Tuesday Smillie
Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue January 25, 2019–January 5, 2020 Click here for more information.
A Discerning Lens: Selections from the Fred W. McDarrah Gay Pride Photographs Collection NYU Kimmel Windows LaGuardia Place and West 3rd Street May 6 – June 30, 2019 Photo © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah. All Rights Reserved
Violet Holdings: LGBTQ+ Highlights from the NYU Special Collections at Bobst NYU Bobst Library 70 Washington Square South Ground floor April 22 – December 31, 2019 Gay and Lesbian Pulp Fiction Collection. Photo courtesy of Fales Library.
Wally Reinhardt reviewed in The New York Times the week of March 6, 2019.
March 4, 2019 by Reshma Persaud We are delighted to kick off a new season of The Grey Area with an exciting interview with Dennis Geronimus, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at NYU. In addition to serving as professor and mentor to many students, including myself, he has authored numerous […]
The Grey Art Gallery is raising funds for one of its most ambitious exhibitions to date! Please help support Art after Stonewall, 1969–1989, the first-ever exhibition to extensively survey art of the LGBTQ civil rights movement as we honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisings. Click on the image below to access the campaign on Rising Violets, […]
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 exploring the impact of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) liberation movement on visual culture. Presented in two parts—at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art—the exhibition features artworks by openly LGBTQ artists such as Vaginal Davis, Louise Fishman, Nan Goldin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Barbara Hammer, Holly Hughes, Greer Lankton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, Joan Snyder, and Andy Warhol. On view at the Grey Art Gallery from April 24 through July 20, 2019 and at the Leslie-Lohman Museum from April 24 through July 21, 2019, the exhibition is organized by the Columbus Museum of Art.