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LGBTQ art shows are lighting up museums from Boston to Berlin
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LGBTQ art shows are lighting up museums from Boston to Berlin
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by Antonia Gabassi
BERLIN
.- Theres an interesting story behind the curation of the latest exhibition at the Galerie Kornfeld, in the resurgent City West region of the German capital. The show is called The Day I Never Met You, and it is a billed as being a conversation between the contemporary British artist Alexander Adams, and the late Georgian painter Natela Iankoshvili, whose estate is represented by the gallery. On first viewing one might assume that the painters were chosen because of their differences, rather than their similarities. Adams has renounced colour, painting in black, white and many shades of grey. Iankoshvili who died in 2007 loved applying broad brush-stokes of vibrant greens, yellows and blues on black-primed canvases. But when you look closely into the art and the artists, the similarities abound. Both apply themselves to landscapes and . More
Cherry Grove, where gay New Yorkers became their real selves
Cherry Grove cottages were an epicenter of gay and lesbian life on the island in the 1950s. They also had a tradition of bearing campy names like this one, called Hot House. Others included No Mans Land and Delta Phelta Guy. Cherry Grove Archives Collection via The New York Times.
by Julianne McShane
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- In the decades before the Stonewall uprising in 1969, an LGBTQ community took shape among New Yorkers on a remote Fire Island hamlet known as Cherry Grove.
There, visitors spent summer weekends sunbathing and partying, forming one of the countrys first gay beach towns when being openly gay could result in ostracism or imprisonment. Only in 1980 did New York state eliminate most of its laws against sodomy.
Cherry Grove, where LGBT+ New Yorkers were their real selves
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