Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

Name: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
Address: 26 Wooster Street, New York, NY, 10013, US
Telephone: +12124312609
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The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art provides a platform for artistic exploration through multi-faceted q Open Friday-Sunday, 12-6 PM.

Created by our founders to preserve LGBTQ+ identity and build community, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art acts as a cultural hub for the LGBTQ+ community. Our roots trace back to 1969 when Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman held an exhibit of gay artists for the first time in their SoHo loft. Throughout the 1970s, they continued to collect and exhibit gay artists while supporting the SoHo art communit

y. During the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s, the collection continued to grow as they rescued the work of dying artists from families who, out of shame or ignorance, wanted to destroy it. This led to the formation of the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation in 1987. In recognition of its importance in the collection and preservation of LGBTQ+ history, the organization was accredited as a museum in 2016. With a collection of over 30,000 objects, the Museum hosts six major exhibitions annually, offers several public programs throughout the year, publishes an arts newsletter, and maintains a research library of over 3,000 volumes. The Museum examines the juxtaposition between art and social justice in ways that provoke thought and dialogue. Located at 26 Wooster Street in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, admission is open to all with a suggested donation of $10. The Museum is a nonprofit organization and is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)3 of the IRS Code

Operating as usual

07/26/2022

Saturday and Sunday will culminate with a fashion pop-up shop featuring q***r designers and artists from NYC and beyond. Swing through, hang out, and shop from 1-5pm at the museum, artists including
, , , , , and will bring their wares to the museum, where guests can not only enjoy the work, but take it home for themselves.

These designers and artists all use fashion as a site to explore transness, how clothing can be a source of safety and joy in an ableist world, and how photography and fashion can function as a vital tool for self representation and preservation in BIPOC, q***r, disability communities.

Some items are free for Black q***r community members, courtesy of the artists. Join us and experience the joy of liberatory design.

RSVP through link in bio or here: https://bit.ly/3OxSEQM

Image Description: A gif cycles through images of some of the artists and designers in the pop-up. They wear their clothing -- bright, colorful, painted, sculptural, kaleidoscopic pieces. Interspersed are the words: POP UP SHOP 1-5PM 7.30 LLMA

07/25/2022

The Leslie-Lohman’s final weekend of summer convenings is getting started on Friday the 29th with a roundtable on disability and joy organized by none other than Chella Man! A trans, deaf, jewish, half-chinese activist, model, actor, artist, and curator, (wow!) Chella has brought people into his world to share not only the struggles that arise from his identities, but also the spaces and moments of profound joy he and his communities cultivate.

From 6-8 pm at the museum, Chella and friends including Jezz Chung Judith Heumann will gather to discuss how we create spaces that center disability community in joyous ways.

Judy Heumann is a lifelong advocate for the rights of disabled people. She contracted polio in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York and began to use a wheelchair for her mobility. She was denied the right to attend school because she was considered a "fire hazard" at the age of five. Her parents played a strong role in fighting for her rights as a child, but Judy soon determined that she, working in collaboration with other disabled people, had to play an advocacy role due to continuous discrimination. She is now an internationally recognized leader in the disability rights community.

Jezz Chung is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York City, creating in the intersection of personal transformation and collective change. With a background in movement, performance, and community facilitation, Chung blends elements of their personal history into their work.

This event is possible through collaboration with . Their current exhibit, Pure Joy, features work by disabled visual and performance artists, and is curated by Chella Man.

RSVP through the link in bio, or by going here: https://bit.ly/3v9HhYb

Roundtable & Museum Accessibility
* Captions and ASL will be provided both in person and online.
* Any visuals presented will be audio described.
* For in person visits, five external steps lead to our main entrance: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible.
* There is a single-occupancy accessible restroom located behind the visitor services desk.
* All restrooms are gender-neutral.

07/20/2022

This Sunday, we’re excited to announce that we’ll be hosting Rotations for their first movement workshop since 2021. This will be a hybrid workshop taking place both online on Zoom and at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art from 12:30-4:30PM EST.

Kayla Hamilton and Perel will be sharing their practice during this workshop, facilitating and leading us through movement exploration, and Yo-yo Ma will be guiding us through an opening meditation. The offerings will be experimentation and led by disabled embodiment and knowledge. The workshop welcomes anyone who holds a relationship with illness/disability, which includes those who are unsure about their disability status.

After the workshop, from 3:30-4:30, Rotations will be leading a conversation talking through art practice, access, and navigating working with cultural institutions. This conversation will center dialed, ill, crip voices in the room, and is supported by .

You can RSVP for either event through the link in bio, or at https://bit.ly/3aOhnSP, or https://bit.ly/3yUDijq

Access: The zoom session will be recorded and available at a later date. You can register for zoom via the RSVP link in bio.

David Lee Sierra will be our lovely access doula in-person, and A. Sef .nyc will be present as access doula online. They will be in the space and on Zoom to support known or arising access needs.

Captions and ASL will be provided both in person and online. Audio description will be embedded in the workshop. For in person visits, five external steps lead to our main entrance: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible. There is a single-occupancy accessible restroom located behind the visitor services desk. All restrooms are gender-neutral.
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07/18/2022

On Saturday, July 23rd, in partnership with NYU Center for Disability Studies, the Leslie-Lohman Museum will host a day-long convening and exchange focusing on Böttner’s oeuvre, diving into the possibilities of q***r kinship, and the embodied experiences of transgender identity, disability, and migration, which Böttner’s work illustrates.

This is a free hybrid program offered at the museum and on zoom.
Please feel welcomed to come and go as you need and desire.
RSVP & Access information here, or through the link in bio: https://bit.ly/3ofyy2V
Event Schedule (subject to change slightly)

10:30AM -11 AM: Coffee/Tea and breakfast pastries at the Museum, slow arrival.
11 AM: Introduction to the day.
11:10 AM -11:40 AM: Mara Mills (NYU Steinhardt) and Adrian Jones (FIT) introductory conversation.
11:40AM -12:40 PM: Paul Preciado: Exhibition Framing and History, with Question and Answer
12:40 PM - 1:10 PM: Simi Linton: On Barry Martin, with Question and Answer
1:10 PM - 1:50 PM: McKenzie Wark: Intersectional framings of disability, transsexuality, and migration not easily containable within q***rness with Question and Answer.
1:50 PM - 2:50 PM: LUNCH BREAK
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM: Mary Duffy: Reflections on artistic practice in the 1980’s and Lorenza B¨¨ottner's work, with Question and Answer
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM: Jules Gill-Peterson: The Aesthetics of Trans Community; This presentation will discuss the fantasy of trans and LGBT "community," both in the New York City of Lorenza Böttner's 1980s and now, with Question and Answer
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM: BREAK
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM: Alice Sheppard & Laurel Lawson: Closing conversation: Artistic practice and provocations of Intersectionality in Lorenza Böttner's Work, with Question and Answer
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM: Mix and mingle, in person and zoom reception.

07/16/2022

✨Tonight ✨ From 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm eastern standard time, Pelenakeke will perform virtually from Aotearoa (New Zealand) as we gather virtually on zoom and in person at the museum for a live streamed viewing. enter//return, a work-in-progress will use breath, scores, movement and drawing to potentially open up a portal of what home might look like. It will center the indigenous, q***r, crip body by offering Samoan customs and exploring q***r longing and crip visibility.

RSVP and full access information via the link in bio, or at:https://bit.ly/3c5Dtk9

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Access for performance:
* Captions, ASL, and Audio description are a part of the work both in person and virtually.
* Small moveable chairs will be provided at the museum.
* Five external steps lead to our main entrance: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible.
* There is a single-occupancy accessible restroom located behind the visitor services desk.
* All restrooms are gender-neutral.
* To connect around access needs and desires please email [email protected]

Covid Safety: Masks must be worn by all visitors and guests unless eating or drinking. Proof of vaccination, or a negative rapid test result taken within the last 24hours is required at the door for in-person participation.

07/11/2022

We are over the moon to present enter // return, a new performance by Pelenakeke Brown on Saturday, July 16th 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm eastern standard time. Pelenakeke will perform virtually from Aotearoa, New Zealand as we gather virtually on zoom and in person at the museum for a live streamed viewing.

RSVP and full access information via the link in bio - or, copy/paste this link: https://bit.ly/3c5Dtk9

enter//return, a work-in-progress will use breath, scores, movement and drawing to potentially open up a portal of what home might look like. It will center the indigenous, q***r, crip body by offering Samoan customs and exploring q***r longing and crip visibility. Recognizing Lorenza Böttner as a q***r, crip ancestor this work will offer ways to hold space and ceremony, together.

Access:
* Captions, ASL, and Audio description are a part of the work both in person and virtually.
* Small moveable chairs will be provided at the museum.
* Five external steps lead to our main entrance: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible.
* There is a single-occupancy accessible restroom located behind the visitor services desk.
* All restrooms are gender-neutral.
* To connect around access needs and desires please email [email protected]

Covid Safety for in person visits: Masks must be worn by all visitors and guests unless eating or drinking. Proof of vaccination, or a negative rapid test result taken within the last 24hours is required at the door for in-person participation.

07/09/2022

Our July summer convening series One Must Live It: In Conversation with Lorenza Böttner begins this coming Saturday, July 16th with a free afternoon tour of the exhibition led by Leslie-Lohman Fellow Alum and visually impaired choreographer, dramaturg, educator and Disability advocate, Christopher “Unpezverde” Núñez. Christopher will lead us through the space highlighting Böttner’s relationship to dance and movement. This tour is in person only but will be filmed and available to the public at a later date.

RSVP and full access information via the link in bio

07/07/2022

This coming Thursday, July 14, from 7:00-9:30pm, we’re pleased to invite you to the opening of Schreber is a Woman, a video installation by the Spanish artist collective El Palomar (Mariokissme and R. Marcos Mota). Our celebratory opening begins with El Palomar in conversation sharing their history and practice as a Barcelona based q***r artist collective. Then stick around for bubbly and the listening session (er, um dance party) of the Schreber soundtrack dance remix album!
Schreber is a Woman is a meditation on q***r and trans history through the figure of Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911), a German judge committed to a psychiatric institution in 1894. While in confinement, Schreber experienced visions and heard voices as he reflected on cosmology, sexuality, religion, and a consuming desire for gender transformation, believing it to be divinely orchestrated. Through performance, set construction, and an electronic, dance-inflected soundtrack, El Palomar presents a contemporary envisioning of Schreber’s rich inner world from a transfeminist perspective. Made during the social isolation of the early Covid-19 pandemic, the installation recuperates, for our present moment, the historic struggles for bodily autonomy, self-determination, and joy.

RSVP link in bio

06/29/2022

As June comes to an end, we are honored to announce that Kyle Ferari-Muñoz, who sits on the Board of the Leslie-Lohman, and Alyssa Nitchun, the Leslie-Lohman’s Executive Director, have been named as two of New York’s LGBTQ+ Power Players — leaders in government and policymaking, education, healthcare, corporate industry, and social and civic advocacy.

LGBTQ+ Power Players set a high bar for professional excellence, but they also demonstrate a deep commitment to their communities, encouraging local political engagement and cultivating networks of safe spaces and resources for those in need. Perhaps most importantly, they remind us that true support and solidarity must be practiced and reaffirmed every day, every month, all year long.

We’re grateful for the recognition. Thank you 🤍

06/29/2022

This evening in the museum from 6:30-8pm, celebrate the launch of Brown Neon, a new book by Raquel Gutiérrez ()! Brown Neon is a meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational q***r dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders.

Join authors Raquel Gutiérrez and Rigoberto González as they read and discuss Gutiérrez’s new series of essays Brown Neon, published by Coffee House Press. The evening will include readings from the artist’s work, discussion with the audience, and a book singing in partnership with local bookseller

Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Link in bio to RSVP.
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Raquel Gutiérrez is an arts critic, writer, poet, and educator. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Gutiérrez credits the q***r and feminist diy, post-punk zine culture of the 1990s, plus Los Angeles County and Getty paid arts internships, for introducing her/them to the various vibrant art and music scenes and communities throughout Southern California. Gutiérrez is a 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism and a 2017 recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. She is/They are faculty for Oregon State University–Cascades’ Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing. Gutiérrez calls Tucson, Arizona, home.

06/24/2022

Title: March for Women’s Lives organized by the National Organization for Women (NOW)
1989, Washington, DC. Gift of the artist, JEB (Joan E. Biren), in the permanent collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art

For more than 40 years, JEB (Joan E. Biren) has extensively documented the LGBTQIA+ movement. This photo of LGBTQIA+ activists at 1989’s March for Women’s Lives is a reminder of how abortion access and q***r liberation are intertwined issues. At their core, both movements are about bodily autonomy - the sacred and inalienable right of people to make choices about their bodies and futures.

33 years after this photo was taken, we’re faced with a world where “same-sex” marriage is protected by law, but trans children and athletes face legally mandated harassment via ge***al examinations. Low-income and rural women and child-bearing people already faced difficulty in accessing abortion care, but in states where abortion access is now illegal they will be forced to cross state lines or seek dangerous healthcare. Both are reminders that while important, “legality” cannot be the only measure of our success.

We already know that those who seek to control and exploit will attempt to divide and distract us. As we move into an uncertain future, we remain grounded in also knowing that at their core, LGBTQIA+ liberation and the movement for abortion access are about the same thing: letting people make the best choices about themselves, their bodies, and their futures.

They don’t got us. WE got us.

06/23/2022

📣SURPRISE GUEST📣
We are so pleased to announce that q***r Icon will be joining us as a surprise guest for tonight’s conversation. Jason Anthony Rodriguez is a Dominican-American actor/dancer. In addition to being a Series Regular on Pose, he was a Movement Coach for all three seasons of Pose. Tonight at 7:00, he and other q***r icons will join us for a conversation in community. How do we talk about the future and possibilities for sustaining q***r community based in care, accountability, learning, pleasure and joy? And what role can q***r artists play in community and broader culture? Tonight’s event is at capacity and we are so excited to welcome you all for a dynamic conversation. 🤍

06/22/2022

Tomorrow from 7:00-8:30PM, we’ll be joined by , , and , three q***r Icons at the forefront of powerfully engaging and sharing their lived realities, opening portals to futures of q***r resilience.

How do we talk about the future and possibilities for sustaining q***r community based in care, accountability, learning, pleasure, and celebration? How do we as q***r community hold and make space for the most vulnerable of us, not as a task or chore, but as a central facet of our collective liberation and joy? And what role can q***r artists play in community and the broader culture?

Join us for a conversation in community. Event is at capacity – RSVP’s will only be honored until 6:50pm and then remaining seats will go to those on the waitlist.

06/22/2022

Tomorrow from 7:00-8:30, we’ll be joined by , , and , three q***r Icons are at the forefront of powerfully engaging and sharing their lived realities, opening portals to futures of q***r resilience.

How do we talk about the future and possibilities for sustaining q***r community based in care, accountability, learning, pleasure, and celebration? How do we as q***r community hold and make space for the most vulnerable of us, not as a task or chore, but as a central facet of our collective liberation and joy? And what role can q***r artists play in community and the broader culture?

Join us for a conversation in community. Event is at capacity – RSVP’s will only be honored until 6:50pm and then remaining seats will go to those on the waitlist.

06/01/2022

This June, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art is thrilled to announce that we are partnering with . Shop a collection of works from LBGTQIA+ creators and artists who forever altered their respective fields, from fine art to fashion to furniture as we celebrate our Q***R ICONS at his month! More to come…!!!

Shop the 1stDibs PRIDE collection: (direct link in the bio above)
https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/y5vQCqxrvRuLO9DcZLXqc

Read the featured editorial with 1stDibs, Alyssa Nitchun, LLMA Executive Director, and Aimée Chan-Lindquist, LLMA Director of External Affairs (direct link in the bio above)
https://www.1stdibs.com/introspective-magazine/leslie-lohman-museum/

Alt text: Alyssa and Aimée sit on a stoop in SoHo smiling. Alyssa on the left is wearing gold hoop earrings, a crisp white shirt, black organza trench, black leather pants, and black platform heels adorned with pearls. Her hands are clasped over each other with a large black and gold ring on her finger and her legs are crossed. Aimée is sitting on the right wearing large black rimmed glasses, white necklace, organza dress with a fuzzy black coat, and lace up open toe black leather booties. Her hands are crossed over each other with large black rings and her legs are crossed.

Photo by Kendall Bessent courtesy 1stDibs

05/25/2022

Colombianizacion is co-presented by Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art and Grace Exhibition Space.

Thursday, May 26th, 8:00 PM, Grace Exhibition Space 182 Avenue C, New York, NY 10009

This performance marks the launch for INDECENCIA! a forthcoming exhibition at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art curated by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles.

Colombianizacion is a project by artist Nadia Granados (b. 1978, Bogotá, Colombia) encompassing performance, video, and social/digital media in a trenchant analysis of the gender performativity of men in narco culture. Granados’ project draws on primary sources related to the violence propagated by the political elites that have been transforming economic, social and cultural structures in Colombia.

Nadia Granados is a Colombian artist using performance, experimental cinema, music, multimedia, web art and cabaret. She is known as La Fulminante. Her artistic practice questions the manipulative strategies that exist behind the representational systems that circulate through the media, making a direct criticism of these structures of symbolic power, and using resources associated with gender performativity and communication guerrillas. She is interested in decolonial thought and the anti-imperialist struggle from a sudaca-kuir-transfeminist perspective. .

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo Ovalles treads an elusive path that manifests itself performatively through creative experiences that he unfolds within the quotidian. Nicolás has received mentorship in art in everyday life from Linda Mary Montano, a historic figure in the performance art field. Residencies attended include P.S.1/MoMA, Center for Book Arts, Yaddo and MacDowell. Born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, in 2011 he was baptized as a Bronxite: a citizen of the Bronx. Nicolás is the founding director of The Interior Beauty Salon, an organism living at the intersection of creativity and healing: www.interiorbeautysalon.com

Also curated by Nicolás, ROCKING THE MARKET, through June 11th at Bronx River Art Center (BRAC)

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Saturday and Sunday will culminate with a fashion pop-up shop featuring queer designers and artists from NYC and beyond. Swing through, hang out, and shop from 1-5pm at the museum, artists including @chellaman , @rebirthgarments, @mellojello91, @vincettastudio, @malcolmxbetts, and @surprisinghealthbenefits will bring their wares to the museum, where guests can not only enjoy the work, but take it home for themselves. These designers and artists all use fashion as a site to explore transness, how clothing can be a source of safety and joy in an ableist world, and how photography and fashion can function as a vital tool for self representation and preservation in BIPOC, queer, disability communities. Some items are free for Black queer community members, courtesy of the artists. Join us and experience the joy of liberatory design. RSVP through link in bio or here: https://bit.ly/3OxSEQM Image Description: A gif cycles through images of some of the artists and designers in the pop-up. They wear their clothing -- bright, colorful, painted, sculptural, kaleidoscopic pieces. Interspersed are the words: POP UP SHOP 1-5PM 7.30 LLMA

“What does it mean to endure care, and how can care be sustained through decades of crisis? Life-saving antiretroviral medications brought fundamental changes to HIV care in 1996, but there is still no cure or vaccine for HIV. The virus can now be suppressed to the point of being undetectable and untransmittable, but living with HIV also entails adherence to a regimen of daily medication and regular doctors visits, self-advocacy in the face of bureaucracy, and dealing with stigma and misinformation. ENDURING CARE addresses these multiple realities, naming the perseverance of care workers and people living with HIV while also suggesting how medicine and healthcare can be painful, harmful, and difficult to access.” The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art is proud to partner with Visual AIDS (@visual_aids) for Day With(out) Art 2021 by presenting ENDURING CARE, a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the ongoing HIV epidemic. The program features newly commissioned work by Katherine Cheairs (@kat_cheairs), Cristóbal Guerra (@farifos), Danny Kilbride (@thinkingfilm), Beto Pérez (@animaleinstein), Steed Taylor (@steed_taylor), Abdul-Aliy A. Muhammad & Uriah Bussey (@mxabdulaliy), and J Triangular and the Women’s Video Support Project (@jtriangular). 💥 TODAY through DEC 7, the video program is available via our webpage. Visit the link below to start watching now! https://www.leslielohman.org/exhibitions/day-without-art-2021-enduring-care 💥 TONIGHT (Dec 1) Visual AIDS is also hosting an #IRL screening and talkback tonight 6–8 pm at @brooklynmuseum with a number of the artists. RSVP via the #linkiprofile. Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over. #LeslieLohmanMusem #VisualAIDS #daywithoutart

Last Night Was So Much Fun 🎉🥂❤️! Thank you to everyone who attended our Fall Gala! We are humbled to have had the opportunity to gather as a community with 275 guests and supporters in a sold out venue, The Stranger, to celebrate our visionary honorees, Jeffrey Gibson (@jeffrune) and #AnniseParker. It was a beautiful evening! We are deeply thankful for our talented performers, devynn emory (@devynnemory), MX Oops (@mx_oops), and Narcissister (@therealnarcissister); our DJ/performers, The Illustrious Blacks (@theillustriousblacks) and br0nz3_g0dd3ss (@misscommunic8) for their fabulous beats all evening; our generous host committee Doron Langberg (@doronlangberg), Jason Rodriguez (@thejasonarodriguez), Martine Rose (@martine_rose), Hillary Taymour (@_collina), and Raquel Willis (@raquel_willis); our sponsor, @madreMezcal. AND especially to YOU, our community, for your overwhelming support for the Museum of Art and LGBTQ+ art! This year's Gala is over but the celebration continues with out Gala Online Art Auction, featuring 51 unique works available for bidding through November 15th. 🔥👀Artists featured include our Gala honoree Jeffrey Gibson, Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellows, and both established and emerging talents. Follow the link below to place your bids! https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/leslie-lohman-museum-of-art/2021-gala-art-auction-7782 The Museum is honored to share a portion of the revenue with the featured artists. And we are partnering with @fairchain.art to offer digital certificates of authenticity for each work and provide royalty for secondary market sales, opening a window of sustainable artist practices for the future. Keep last night’s Gala energy alive by visiting the auction to bid on works by artists paving the way for queer culture today 🔥! #LeslieLohmanMuseum #LLMAGala2021 [📸 : © Leandro Justen, 2019 and Cara Friedman/BFA.com.]

TUEDAY, NOV 16th, 6:30 PM, we are thrilled to co-present with Judd Foundation (@juddfoundation) a conversation between Avram Finkelstein, curator of our current exhibition, "OMNISCIENT: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture" and participating artists Camilo Godoy and Omar Mismar. The conversation will focus on new approaches to monumentality, identity, and legacies of queer image-making in the context of "inbetweeness", an exhibition of two works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Judd Foundation. Finkelstein will join the conversation from 101 Spring Street at Judd Foundation where "inbetweeness" is currently on view (through Dec 18th). Godoy and Mismar will participate virtually; Mismar from his studio in Beirut and Godoy from #NYC. 🎟️ Register at #linkinprofile! 💥 Avram Finkelstein (@avramf) is an artist and writer, and a founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives. 💥 Camilo Godoy (camilogodoy) is an artist and educator born in Bogotá, Colombia and based in New York, United States. His multidisciplinary projects are concerned with political histories and memories. 💥Omar Mismar is a visual artist based in Beirut. His practice is project driven, probing the entanglement of art and politics, and the aesthetics of disaster. Mismar takes up conflict and its representations via form deliberations, material interventions, and translation strategies, using the performative as gesture and rehearsal. #LeslieLohmanMuseum #JuddFoundation #FelixGonzalezTorres #OmarMismar #CamiloGodoy #AvramFinkelstein

TUEDAY, NOV 16th, 6:30 PM, we are thrilled to co-present with Judd Foundation (@juddfoundation) a conversation between Avram Finkelstein, curator of our current exhibition, "OMNISCIENT: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture" and participating artists Camilo Godoy and Omar Mismar. The conversation will focus on new approaches to monumentality, identity, and legacies of queer image-making in the context of "inbetweeness", an exhibition of two works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Judd Foundation. Finkelstein will join the conversation from 101 Spring Street at Judd Foundation where "inbetweeness" is currently on view (through Dec 18th). Godoy and Mismar will participate virtually; Mismar from his studio in Beirut and Godoy from #NYC. 🎟️ Register at the link below! https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S_-F8hRsSvm-8j9calNAuA 💥 Avram Finkelstein (@avramf) is an artist and writer, and a founding member of the Silence=Death and Gran Fury collectives. 💥 Camilo Godoy (camilogodoy) is an artist and educator born in Bogotá, Colombia and based in New York, United States. His multidisciplinary projects are concerned with political histories and memories. 💥Omar Mismar is a visual artist based in Beirut. His practice is project driven, probing the entanglement of art and politics, and the aesthetics of disaster. Mismar takes up conflict and its representations via form deliberations, material interventions, and translation strategies, using the performative as gesture and rehearsal. #LeslieLohmanMuseum #JuddFoundation #FelixGonzalezTorres #OmarMismar #CamiloGodoy #AvramFinkelstein

T-1 DAY! Our one-of-a-kind, art-filled Gala party is TOMORROW, NOV 9th, 7-10 pm! Tickets are still available. Head to the #linkinprofile to get yours NOW! This year’s Gala honors visionary artist Jeffrey Gibson (@jeffrune) and vanguard politician Annise Parker (@anniseparker). The evening will feature performances by devynn emory (@devynnemory), MX Oops (@mx_oops), and Narcissister (@therealnarcissister), with music by the talented The Illustrious Blacks (@theillustriousblacks) and br0nz3_g0dd3ss, along with dinner, dancing, and a chance to bid on some of the most exciting contemporary queer art. The celebration will unfold under the weird and wonderful roof of The Strangers, #NYC’s new immersive nightlife experience. The Fall Gala is Leslie-Lohman’s most important fundraiser of the year, providing critical support for the Museum's multi-faceted exhibitions, programming and education. Join us for the festivities and embrace the power of the arts to inspire, explore, and foster understanding of the rich diversity of LGBTQ+ experiences! For TIX visit the #linkinprofile. Regrets are not an option, this will be an evening to remember! #LeslieLohmanMuseum #LLMAGala2021

T-1 DAY! Our one-of-a-kind, art-filled Gala party is TOMORROW, NOV 9th, 7-11 pm! Tickets are still available. ➡️ Head to the #linkinprofile to get yours NOW! This year’s Gala honors visionary artist Jeffrey Gibson (@jeffrune) and vanguard politician Annise Parker (@anniseparker). The evening will feature performances by devynn emory (@devynnemory), MX Oops (@mx_oops), and Narcissister (@therealnarcissister), with music by the talented The Illustrious Blacks (@theillustriousblacks) and br0nz3_g0dd3ss. There will be dinner, dancing, and a chance to bid on some of the most exciting contemporary queer art all unfolding under the weird and wonderful roof of The Strangers, #NYC’s new immersive nightlife experience. The Fall Gala is Leslie-Lohman’s most important fundraiser of the year, providing critical support for the Museum's multi-faceted exhibitions, programming and education. Join us for the festivities and embrace the power of the arts to inspire, explore, and foster understanding of the rich diversity of LGBTQ+ experiences. Regrets are not an option, this will be an evening to remember! 🔥For TIX visit the #linkinprofile. #LeslieLohmanMuseum #LLMAGala2021 [Event Artwork by Jeffrey Gibson. Design by Martin Perry and special thanks to Rune Olsen.]

TODAY #SpecialGuest 2Spirit photographer and storyteller Coyote Park (he/they) (@coyotepark) visited the Museum to explore our archives! Park discussed their art-making practice in conversation with specific works/artists in our collection that they draw inspiration from. Spending a few minutes with each work, Coyote touched on themes of QTBIPOC care, love and domesticity, TGNC identity, queer parenting, the photographic gaze, self-portraiture, and more! Learn about Coyote’s practice by following them @coyotepark and visit ⚡coyotepark.format.com⚡ These are the works Coyote discussed today! 🔥 fierce pussy, “fierce pussy,” 2008 🔥 Cathy Cade, “Last Days,” 1989 🔥 Zanele Muholi, “Being,” 2007 🔥 JEB (Joan E. Biren), “Gloria and Charmaine,” 1979 🔥 Zackary Drucker and Amos Mac, “Distance is Where the Heart is, Home is Where You Hang Your Heart #21,” 2011 🔥 Shari Diamond, “Wound Dressings,” 1993 🔥 Katrina Del Mar, “Glitter Girls,” 1999 🔥 Marcelina Martin, “Lillies,” 2002 🔥 Del LaGrace Volcano, “GENDER OPTIONAL: The Mutating Self Portrait,” 1999 Coyote Park (he/they) is a 2Spirit, mixed race (Korean, White, Native American) artist from Honolulu, Hawai'i that currently lives in Tongva Territory "Los Angeles". They are a photographer and storyteller who is Indigenous to California (from the Yurok tribe). Park focuses their work on their trans family, as they want to make images of people that they love and have shared lived experiences with. Celebrating the every day by documenting their home space and environments in building queer utopia. Their written work merges with their passion for image making and has come together in their photo book entitled "All Kin is Blood Kin" surrounding themes of family, rebirth, bodies, sexuality, and love. Storytelling is central to Park's art and cultural understanding of the world. Park's practice is community and collaboration oriented, as they make photographs with

Happy Tuesday! We are exactly two away from our Fall Gala, Tuesday, Nov. 9th! Do you have your tickets? Head to #linkinprofile and secure them today! 🎟 At this year’s Gala, we are thrilled to welcome multimedia performer and educator MX Oops (@mx_oops) to the stage🔥 MX’s work centers hybridity, encouraging ecstatic disobedience as a path toward embodied wellness. Working in a range of mediums including dance, video design, new media sculpture, costume, rap, and guided meditation, their work explores the nightclub as a queer site of transnational Afro-diasporic imagining. For our Gala, MX will perform a remix of rap and vogue, colorfully reminding us that in nature, variation is the norm. The song, "Full Disclosure," produced by TRIGGERED MUSIC, honors nature as a mystery that can never be fully disclosed, inviting us deeper into the process of becoming. Their presence will be further extended through the evening's floral design that will draw creative direction from their series of new media sculptures, "transcoding shrines."💥 Sophie Stone, The Stranger’s floral event designer, will develop event-specific interpretations to illuminate the evening, inviting reflection on the meeting of nature, new media, and awareness. MX is the creative director of transmedia production company, Complex Stability, exploring queer mysticism through crude metaphysics; a 2021-2022 CultureHub Experiments in Digital Storytelling Mentor and Researcher; and Assistant Professor teaching in Lehman College's Dance (BA) and Multimedia Performing Arts (BFA) Programs. Follow MX @mx_oops to keep abreast of their exciting projects AND to visit the #linkinprofile to save your seat to their special gala performance! [Video: © MX Oops, "Full Disclosure" 2021. Makeup by @r_salles] #LeslieLohmanMuseum #LLMAGala2021

Get your tickets TODAY! 🎟 The #LeslieLohmanMuseum Fall Gala, aka our grand coming out celebration is less than a month away! Join us on TUES, NOVEMBER 9TH at 7pm to honor visionary artist Jeffrey Gibson (@jeffrune) and vanguard politician Annise Parker (@anniseparker). This years celebration will take place at The Stranger, a brand NEW immersive nightlife experience poised to take over #NYC. Hosted by the talents of Artist Doron Langberg (@doronlangberg), Actor Jason Rodriguez (@thejasonarodriguez), Designer Martine Rose (@martine_rose), Creative Director Hillary Taymour (@_collina), and Activist, Writer and Organizer extraordinaire Raquel Willis (@raquel_willis). Curated by artist and honoree Jeffrey Gibson featuring powerful performances by devynn emory (@devynnemory), MX Oops (@mx_oops), and Narcissister (@therealnarcissister), all will unfold under The Strangers’ weird and wonderful roof with music by the talented Illustrious Blacks (@theillustriousblacks). Plus a digital auction featuring works by exciting LGBTQ+ artists hosted by @bidsquare in partnership with @fairchain.art. The evening is sponsored by @madremezcal. 🔥🔥 Regrets are not an option, this will be an evening to remember! 🔥🔥 ➡Head to the #Linkinprofile to secure your tickets! And stay tuned here for more information about our honoree, performers, and hosts coming soon! #LeslieLohmanMuseum #LLMAGala2021

Happy Friday! Today we’re looking at the video “Silent Cut”(2021) by multidisciplinary artist Chitra Ganesh (@chitraganeshbkny), currently on view in “OMNISCIENT: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture,”curated by @avramf. In this almost 16 minutes long non-linear narrative Ganesh addresses subliminal processes of cultural colonization through a pastiche of re-edited silent-era cinematic genres, including science fiction and nature films. Comprised of clips from more than twenty shorts and features (including scenes from the 1927 film Metropolis), Ganesh’s montage offers a critique of Orientalist fantasias culled from “eastern” stereotypes and visions of the distant past. About the film Ganesh notes, “At the moment of its inception, early cinema served as a contemporary means of constructing and visualizing an “other,” often weaving distant historical eras with mythic and fairy tale tropes.” Stop by the Museum TODAY through Sunday (12-6pm) to watch the full film and view works by more than 40 artists exploring queer iconography in the digital age. Tickets strongly encouraged. Reserve via #LinkInProfile ⬆️ [🎥: Chitra Ganesh, “Silent Cuts” (1 min clip), 2012. (c) the artist.]

#SaveTheDate 💥 NOVEMBER 20, 6-11pm! Our one-of-a-kind, art-filled Gala party is on its way! Join us in celebrating visionary artist Jeffrey Gibson (@jeffrune) and vanguard politician Annise Parker (@anniseparker). The evening will include performances and visuals curated by Jeffrey Gibson, featuring @mx_oops @devynnemoryalong, and @therealnarcissister, with a dinner reception, dancing, and a chance to bid on some exciting contemporary queer art. Get your tickets TODAY at #Linkinprofile 🎉 #LeslieLohamMuseum is humbled to gather in celebration of these inspiring honorees, exemplifying the commitment and impact of the LGBTQ+ communities the Museum has partnered with through the challenges and successes of this past year. We look forward to celebrating with you! #LLMAGALA2021 [Image: Event artwork by Jeffrey Gibson, Graphic design by Martin Perry and special thanks to Rune Olsen.]

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Devan Shimoyama's 'Ready For a Revolution, 2018' is currently on view in the group exhibition “Not Me, Not That, Not Nothing Either” curated by Rachel Beaudoin and Nirvana Santos-Kuilan on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art from February 4 - June 25, 2022.

'Not Me, Not That, Not Nothing Either' presents the work of 11 contemporary q***r artists who employ fragmentation as a generative and subversive method of opposing cis-heteronormative frameworks. Drawing its title from the 1980 text Powers of Horror, in which theorist Julia Kristeva examines the physical and psychic boundaries between oneself and the world, the exhibition offers a lens into the liminal spaces of q***r subjectivities. The works in Not Me, Not That, Not Nothing Either position q***rness as neither subject nor object, but rather as a form of relation that is at once of primary importance and incidental to individuation.

“Each of these artists in the exhibition has created playful, exploratory works that push the bounds of their respective media and refuse the confines of categorization.” - Co-curator Nirvana Santos-Kuilan

“There is so much to learn from each of these artists in how we approach and continue to imagine futures for our individual and collective q***rness.” - Co-curator Rachel Beaudoin

Participating artists include: Math Bass, Diedrick Brackens, A.K. Burns, Jibz Cameron, Theresa Chromati, KC Crow Maddux, Troy Michie, Christina Quarles, Devan Shimoyama, Ceaphas Stubbs, and Jade Yumang.

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Photos: (c) Kristine Eudey, 2022. Courtesy of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

Tonight is the last night for our pop up at Hôtel Gaythering. Room 3060 from 5pm - midnight. We’re featuring art of Andrew Sedgwick Guth HOMO RIOT Kinky Needles Fernando Pinosa Christopher Selleck Michael Sjostedt Chris Ironside Cameron Barker - Artist and more! Items supporting G**s Against Guns SAGE Rainbow Railroad The Trevor Project Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art ACLU Democratic Socialists of America Ali Forney Center The Le***an, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
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We’re in Miami for our pop up at Hôtel Gaythering, stop by if you’re in town. We’re featuring art of Andrew Sedgwick Guth Kinky Needles Fernando Pinosa Christopher Selleck Michael Sjostedt Chris Ironside HOMO RIOT Cameron Barker - Artist and more! Items supporting G**s Against Guns SAGE Rainbow Railroad The Trevor Project Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art ACLU Democratic Socialists of America Ali Forney Center The Le***an, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.
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Don't miss it!

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, timed '2021 Gala Art Auction' is available to bid now through November 15, 11:55pm EST.

The catalog features many of the most prolific LGBTQ+ artists of today, across mediums and disciplines. Artists featured include Gala honoree Jeffrey Gibson, Leslie-Lohman Museum Artist Fellows, and both established and emerging talents.

Register to bid via Bidsquare and support artists paving the way for q***r culture today.

To celebrate the publication of DUETS: Frederick Weston & Samuel R. Delany in Conversation earlier this year, Visual AIDS and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art will host a discussion with Samuel R. Delany and Tavia Nyong’o. ⬇️

For Flash Art's Fall issue, Chitra Ganesh has conceived a graphic narrative starting from a reflection on the concept of biodiversity, and a meditation on current states of uncertainty and fragmentation. Fusing image and text, the artist constructs a multilayered narrative that animates the interconnected nature of being.

Chitra Ganesh’s graphic narrative “Urgency or The Thick of Time” is exclusively available by purchasing the magazine in its digital or print versions.

Chitra Ganesh’s solo show “A city will share her secrets if you know how to ask” at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art is on view through June 2022. Her upcoming exhibition at Hales Gallery, New York, will open on November 18th 2021.

Year of Gif (2013) is currently showing as 2 channel video installation at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York City) as part of Omniscient curated by Avram Finkelstein . This exhibition features 40 artists and runs to January 2022.
Year of Gif was commissioned as a grand scale videomapping architectural site-specific projection for the Surrey Art Gallery in 2013. It was re-edited for other sites and has shown at the Windsor Gallery (Vancouver) , Galerie Joyce Yahouda (Montreal), Shrine Empire Gallery (New Delhi, India) Mois de la Photo Festival (Montreal)

Live! Show! ChamberQ***R is thrilled to collaborate with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art on Oct 29th at 7:30 PM! This Is the Way That You Are highlights voices of q***r composers and performers both past and present, examines ideas of identity and liberation, and how those ideas might intersect differently for different corners of the LGBTQ+ community. Music of our New York predecessors, Julius Eastman and Arthur Russell, guitar lines of Grey Mcmurray and world premieres of music by Michael Genese and Andrew Yee, and appearances by special guests with their own perspectives to share!

The show is free, but RSVP is required and space is limited. Reserve here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chamberq***r-presents-this-is-the-way-that-you-are-tickets-174462420797

Vaccination and masks required, safety first!

Presented with the support of City Artist Corps.

Of possible interest to our fellow Bressan fans: an excellent discussion on Gay Life in 1970s NYC, with some of the people who shaped and documented that singular time and place in our history. This discussion was hosted by Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, and is shared on Vimeo along with other videos from their archives.

Please join ArtTable on Thursday, September 30 for a special virtual discussion on Fluidity and Queerness in Art, in partnership with Speciwomen.

On the occasion of Speciwomen’s third issue launch, this panel will explore fluidity and q***rness from various perspectives in the art world. We will hear from each panelist on what fluidity means to each of them, how identity has influenced their work and/or approach to their profession, and the “overtness” of q***r art.

Our panelists include Philo Cohen, Founder & Editor-in-Chief at Speciwomen; Opashona Ghosh and Anne-Sophie Guillet, Artists featured in the Fluidity issue of Speciwomen, and Alyssa Nitchun, Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. The discussion will be moderated by Grey, an artist & cultural activist. Click below to register!

https://arttable.org/event/virtual-fluidity-and-q***rness-in-art/

We are thrilled to invite you to the group exhibition OMNISCIENT at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art , New York, featuring works by Roey Victoria Heifetz curated by Avram Finkelstein.

https://www.leslielohman.org

Learn more about Jesse Harrod in this Grantee Spotlight. Harrod’s interdisciplinary visual practice encompasses sculpture, painting, and other media to reimagine forms of gendered, sexual, and disabled embodiment. Their work has been exhibited at SculptureCenter, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, and Vox Populi. They are an associate professor and the program head of fibers & material studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University.