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The Face Of Any Century
Garbos centenary celebration in clip homages and museum retrospective
When does one first turn into conscious of beauty? For me, it may include been at age seven, when I was struck by an image on the television a vision of unearthly loveliness, a tall, beautiful woman dressed in a white organdy froth of bustle and picture hat, playing croquet. This woman haunted me for years, until I discovered that she was Greta Garbo, in Anna Karenina.
By that time, the television programming in Hawaii had ceased to exhibit classics from the MGM library, so I was forced to sate my curiosity about her in books and library microfilm, devouring her every published photograph.
I was wild to actually see a clip of hers but, in that pre-video, pre-Turner Classic Movies time, this was well nigh impossible. I finally coerced my eighth grade science teacher, a serious movie buff, to rent a millimeter publish of Camille, which he ran for me, my best friend, and his family in a classroom on a Sunday darkness. I recall feeling some trepidationcould she possibly inhabit up to
Portraits
Exhibition dates: 7th October 26th February
An exhibition showcasing Lesbian, Homosexual, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer artistic life in Recent York City through the social networks of Leonard Bernstein, Mercedes de Acosta, Harmony Hammond, Bill T. Jones, Lincoln Kirstein, Greer Lankton, George Platt Lynes, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Bruce Nugent, and Andy Warhol.
Curators: Donald Albrecht, MCNY curator of architecture and blueprint, and Stephen Vider, MCNY Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow.
Richard Bruce Nugent (American, )
Lucifer
From the Salome series
Watercolour on cardstock
Art & Artifacts Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Widespread Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
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This is part 1 of a monster, two-part posting on this fabulous extravaganza: Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Customs in New York at the Museum of the Urban area of New York, a groundbreaking exhibition that explores Modern Yorks role as a beacon for lesbian, gay, double attraction, and transgender (LGBT
Gayborhood
If you need to Have a Gay Aged Timenote Clockwise from top left: Rainbow Crosswalk (NE Santa Monica Blvd. and San Vincente Blvd.) in West Hollywood, Los Angeles; S. 13th St. and Walnut St. outside of Woody’s Gay Prevent in Philadelphia’s Gayborhood (not just a trope, but the district’s actual nickname); the former site of Outwrite Lesbian and Homosexual Bookstore & Coffeehouse on the right-hand corner of 10th St. and N. Piedmont Ave. in Atlanta; and the S. Castro St.-Market St. intersection in San Francisco’s Castro District.
Fidel Castro:Ah, they're not so awful. They even named a avenue after me in San Francisco. [Castro's aide whispers in his ear]It's full of WHAT?!
The Simpsons
A Cast Full of Queer in real life. It's the part of a major metropolis where its LGBT+ community either lives or visits to party. Rainbow flags hang from the streetlights, and the streets are lined with gay bars, boutiques, trendy cafes, and overpriced housing. You're likely to run into
Partner Salka Viertel, Mercedes De Acosta
Queer Places:
Miramar Hotel, Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA , Stati Uniti
Tower Rd, Beverly Hills, CA , Stati Uniti
The Beverly Hills Hotel, Sunset Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA , Stati Uniti
Chevy Chase Dr, Beverly Hills, CA , USA
N Camden Dr, Beverly Hills, CA , USA
San Vicente Blvd, Santa Monica, CA , USA
N Rockingham Ave, Los Angeles, CA , USA
Mabery Rd, Santa Monica, CA , USA
N Carmelina Ave, Los Angeles, CA , Stati Uniti
N Bristol Ave, Los Angeles, CA , USA
Amalfi Dr, Pacific Palisades, CA , Stati Uniti
Grand Hyatt New York, E 42nd St, Recent York, NY , Stati Uniti
2 Beekman Pl, New York, NY , Stati Uniti
The Campanile, E 52nd St, Novel York, NY , Stati Uniti
The Ritz Tower, Park Ave, New York, NY , Stati Uniti
The Hampshire House, Pivotal Park South, , NYC, NY, USA
Hotel Adlon, Unter den Linden 77, Berlin, Germania
Hotel Esplanade, Bellevuestraße 1, Berlin, Germania
Dramatens elevskola, Nybroplan, 47 Stockholm, Svezia
Skogskyrkogården, Sockenvägen, 33 Stockholm, Svezia
Blekingegatan 32, 56 Stockholm, Svezia
Karl