New Stories
Romaine Brooks: The Woman in the top hat and the Art of Living Visibly
BySometime around 1923, Romaine Brooks painted herself. She placed the…
Pavel Tchelitchew: The Man Who Hid Everything in Plain Sight
Pavel Tchelitchew. Hide-and-Seek. Derby, Vermont and New York, June 1940…
Alice Austen: Loved a Woman for 55 Years While Photographing the History of New York City
Elizabeth Alice Austen photographed queer life in Victorian America with…
Danny Fitzgerald and Richard Bennett: the Lost World of Les Demi Dieux
For forty years they lived and worked together in Carroll…
David Hockney: The Man Who Refused to Hide and the Art of Being Queer
Born into the industrial north of England when homosexuality was…
Wilhelm von Plüschow: Artist, Outlaw, and the Question That Won’t Go Away
Naked man in front of a tree, 1930 There’s a…
John Singer Sargent: Through an LGBTQ+ Lens
Croquis d’Emilio Bassi, before 1917 John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) is…
Sarah Bernhardt: Queer Icon Who Invented the Modern Celebrity
Sarah Bernhardt by Paul Nadar, 1878 Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923) was…
Robert Rauschenberg: Art, Queerness, and Cultural Impact
Robert Rauschenberg, Stedelijk retrospective, Amsterdam, 1968 Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) was…
Edward Burra: Painting Queer Life in the Shadows
Dockside Cafe Marseilles, 1929 Edward John Burra (1905–1976) was an…
