Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture  | Mm of the Cy of New York

Contents:

• GAY GOTHAM
• GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE NEW YORK HARDVER – ILLTRATED, OCTOBER 4, 2016
• GAY GOTHAM REVEALS HOW A CY’S QUEER UNRGROUND CHANGED AMERIN CULTURE
• GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE
• NEW EXHIBN ‘GAY GOTHAM’ CELEBRAT 80 YEARS OF ART AND UNRGROUND LGBTQ CULTURE NEW YORK CY
• THE MM OF THE CY OF NEW YORK TO EXAME A GAY UNRGROUND
• GAY INTERT
• GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE NEW YORK
• GOGS ON ABOUT TOWNSIGN LISTMAPEXPLOREALLARTCLASSIL MICDANCEFOOD & DRKMOVINIGHT LIFEPODSTSTELEVISNTHE THEATREABOVE & BEYONDGOGS ON ABOUT TOWNSEARCH…SIGN XARTMMS AND LIBRARIGAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE NEW YORK.
• “GAY GOTHAM:” AN UNRGROUND CULTURE NYC

GAY GOTHAM

In Depth: Panel Discsn on Photography and Homoerotic Dire. BFA Photography and Vio and the Mm of the Cy of New York prent a panel discsn on how homoerotic photography found s way to New York Cy galleri and mms the 1970s. Listeng to Gay Gotham.

GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE NEW YORK HARDVER – ILLTRATED, OCTOBER 4, 2016

Gay Gotham curators Stephen Vir and Donald Albrecht found a unique way to do that by workg wh actors to perform readgs of the works of Richard Bce Nugent and Merces Asta, featured on d statns the exhibn. Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture New York Hardver – Illtrated, October 4, 2016. ", "actnalValue":"21", "symbolPosn":"left", "hasSpace":false, "showFractnalPartIfEmpty":te, "offerListgId":"Gudu6eI1drvmX2Y0w6qB6jWTFDjMSZLgE2hVE9iUKSOZeyZkykVwabX9zFw5po9OD5seMllz5b%2F1PwREWuL%2FW4D0nuajrN48f0HghJp403RCoX3J3bMrj8xSaZR%2FL6ERCbOUe5thVbNSeDWa%2FKN8vB1rzEvPg7nLaLeBuBkCUaDiZA78mCHPJ%2BZO1hbYPx", "lole":"en-US", "buygOptnType":"NEW", "aapiBuygOptnInx":0}]} Purchase optns and add-ons Unverg the lost history of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists New York Cy.

Gay Gotham brgs to life the untercultural artistic muni that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose radil ias would terme much of morn culture.

GAY GOTHAM REVEALS HOW A CY’S QUEER UNRGROUND CHANGED AMERIN CULTURE

Last month, the Mm of the Cy of New York mounted Gay Gotham, an exhibn that tells the story of New York Cy’s thrivg and fluential queer cultural unrground.

Enpassg more than eight s of history, Gay Gotham gathers art works, prted matter like novels and newsletters, and other ephemera to reveal how queer artists and queer social works have impacted the cultural landspe of both the cy and Ameri more broadly. Prentg perd-specific maps and documentary photographs, the exhibn lot and draws nnectns between queer ins and the “gayborhoods” they lled home, allowg to ntemplate how past generatns of LGBTQ people rved out a space for the queer culture we take for granted today.

GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE

I spoke wh -curator Stephen Vir about Gay Gotham, specifilly why the exhibn foc on the years between 1910 and 1995. For Vir and -curator Donald Albrecht, there was somethg more powerful explorg the perd when gay culture was ls visible, forced unrground—but still somehow shapg Amerin life.

Gay Gotham grounds s sprawlg time range 10 artistic figur: poser Leonard Bernste; artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Gee Platt Lyn, Andy Warhol, Richard Bce Nugent, Harmony Hammond, and Greer Lankton; wrer Merces Asta; ballet imprar Lln Kirste; and dancer-choreographer Bill T. Gay Gotham celebrat how much New York’s queer muny was able to acplish durg s most difficult tim—s abily to “transcend opprsn” through artistic llaboratn.

The Gay Gotham talog offers an even broar array of artists and cultural producers that touch ntemporary gay life, cludg Mae Wt, whose 1928 Broadway productn of Pleasure Man was raid and ultimately shut down by police for s pictn of drag queens. But Gay Gotham is not about ins alone.

NEW EXHIBN ‘GAY GOTHAM’ CELEBRAT 80 YEARS OF ART AND UNRGROUND LGBTQ CULTURE NEW YORK CY

For example, most of know that the Wt Village has been a safe haven for gays sce the turn of the century—the neighborhood still looms large the queer imagatn as the cradle of gay culture and activism, spe s more recent gentrifitn.

THE MM OF THE CY OF NEW YORK TO EXAME A GAY UNRGROUND

In the 1920s, the streets offered popular but fotten venu like The Ubangi Club, where famed performer Gladys Bentley “wore male attire and sang nghty show tun, ” as well as 20 other queer venu that, acrdg to the talog wre-up, offered people “the chance to hobnob wh the neighborhood’s lbians and gay men.

” The LGBTQ empire marked out by the hot spots has sce dwdled to a handful of gay-iendly spac, but the power of that moment is still felt the work of the inic artists and cultural figur who experienced —Jam Van Der Zee, Carl Van Vechten, Richard Bce Nugent, and more. One of the most touchg moments the exhibn is a simple vio stallatn that offers a rollg slishow of photographs ntributed by Gay Gotham visors.

The stallatn draws spiratn om “The Gallery of Extraordary Portras, ” a 1928 exhibn celebratg terracial, gay, and artistic muni that artist Max Ewg stalled the walk- closet of his stud apartment. Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture New York will be on display at the Mm of the Cy of New York through Feb. Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture explor the queer creative works that sprang up the cy over the 20th century.

GAY INTERT

Gay Gotham.

Luckily, that semal moment LGBT culture was ptured on film, and you n now see at the Mm of the Cy of New York, as part of s brilliant new exhibn “Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture New York, ” a show about queer life, culture and art New York Cy om early-20th century through the 1990s. Curated by MCNY curator of archecture and sign Donald Albrecht wh historian Stephen Vir, MCNY Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, “Gay Gotham” is a fascatg look at the impact and ntributn of LGBT artists to New York's cultural life, and by extensn, to the entire untry's cultural and social life. “Gay Gotham” is divid to three major chronologil sectns: “Visible Subcultur” vers the early 1910s to the 1930s, and tak a look at how gay life flourished neighborhoods like Harlem and Greenwich Village.

The first gallery opens wh artist and wrer Richard Bce Nugent, the most openly gay figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNRGROUND CULTURE NEW YORK

Leonard Bernste, the most proment artist here, exemplifi the challeng gay artists faced post-World War II Ameri: a voted hband to Chilean actrs Felicia Cohn Montealegre and father of three children, Bernste never me out publicly wh fear of damagg his reer.

On the oppose wall, an credible seri of polaroid-sized photographs taken by an anonymo photographer on the streets of New York Cy the '60s: boyiends huggg, a stylish gay wboy, some old-fashned cisg on 5th Avenue, and a man tight jeans and proud of his erectn dite the closet bubble is about to burst. Upstairs, “Out New York” vers the years leadg up to Stonewall until the mid-1990s, an era when anti-homophobia activism grew stronger; rpons the fight agast AIDS changed art forever; and the “we're here, we're queer, get ed to ” mentaly was born. It also shows a clip om 1932's “Call Her Savage, ” the first film to pict a gay bar, illtratg the fluence of New York's cultural queer scene Hollywood.

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The elegant sign by archect Joel Sanrs adds a great al of texture to the exhibn's narrative: most of the artwork hangs around the perimeter circle of the galleri, while maps that “charter an evolvg gay geography of New York” are featured the center. The walls are pated lavenr: dark and ep for the gallery verg the years before Stonewall, and lighter for the years after, when gay life beme more visible.

Warhol was also iends wh Charl Henri Ford, who -wrote the gay lerary classic “Young and Evil” wh Parker Tyler 1933 (on display at the exhibn), and whose work of iends clud Carl Van Vecthen, Gee Platt Lyn and Cecil Beaton. A stunng 304-page book, Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture New York, published by Skyra Rizoli and wrten by Donald Albrecht wh Stephen Vir, acpani the exhibn. “Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture New York, ” ns through Febary 26, 2017 at the Mm of the Cy of New York.

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTInsi Cecil Beaton Stud Archive/Sotheby’sJune 23, 2016The Mm of the Cy of New York uld not have predicted how timely would be to mount an exhibn explorg how creativy beme both an outlet and a refuge for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr artists New, after the shootgs Orlando, Fla., the show, “Gay Gotham: Art and Unrground Culture New York, ” which opens this fall, seems prcient that “celebrat the creativy and the richns of the L.

“GAY GOTHAM:” AN UNRGROUND CULTURE NYC

Albrecht said he clud bee the creators were all gay: Bernste (mic), Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), Arthur Lrents (libretto), Jerome Robbs (choreography), Oliver Smh (scenery) and Irene Sharaff (stum) the exhibn will be Bernste’s py of “Romeo and Juliet” — the basis for the mil — which he wr a plea for racial tolerance. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn C, Page 20 of the New York edn wh the headle: The Gay Unrground All Its Inventn. Unverg the lost history of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists New York Cy.