LESLIE + LOHMAN | Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art | NEW YORK

«The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is the first dedicated LGBTQ art museum in the world with a mission to exhibit and preserve LGBTQ art, and foster the artists who create it The Leslie-Lohman Museum embraces the rich creative history of the LGBTQ art community by informing, inspiring, entertaining, and challenging all who enter its doors». +.

 

Exposições em curso, em três galerias: ver aqui. Por exemplo:

August 14 - September 28, 2014
Permanency: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Curated by Museum Staff

 

 

 

 

E no site do Museu ( a nosso ver um bom site) há muito mais informação, tendo-se reparado nas publicações. Uma delas, THE ARCHIVE:

 



 

«The Archive is the official journal of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.

It is published four times a year and is made possible in part by a generous grant from the John Burton Harter Charitable Trust.
    Articles, letters, commentary, corrections pertinent to the purview of Leslie-Lohman can be submitted typewritten on CD or by email (MS Word PC format only, double spaced), to: The Editor, The ARCHIVE, LLM, 26 Wooster St., New York, NY 10013 or by email to: The Editor, The ARCHIVE». +  O número 50 disponível em PDF neste endereço.

 

E chegámos ao Museu (via web) através do post, do Arts Beat do New York Times, An Eclectic Lineup for the Queer New York International Arts Festival, onde podemos ler:

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The festival, now in its third year, will run from Sept. 17 to 28, with performances at the Abrons Arts Center, LaMama and the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, in Manhattan; the Chocolate Factory in Queens; and Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn.

“The exclusive reading of queer(ness) through sexuality and gender prisms too often neglects other aspects like social status and background, race and ethnicity, geography and other norms that influence positioning of queer in society and art,” the festival’s producer, Zvonimir Dobrovic said in a statement about the festival’s driving philosophy. “During the festival’s intensely paced twelve days, New York audiences will have the opportunity to experience a range of performances that challenge heteronorms and the status quo on various levels.”

(...)»