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New art exhibit in Greenport explores untold queer stories of the North Fork
A new artwork show in Greenport seeks to convey to an exuberant, untold piece of local historical past by means of illustration. “Fashion: A Hidden History” is now on show at the Natali/Keyes gallery on Key Road and will be shown through Aug. 15. The assortment features drawings and collages by Jerry Schofield, a trend illustrator and artist who was commissioned by legendary makes and designers including Lord and Taylor and Henri Bendel, exactly where he met his partner, Frank McIntosh. The two lived in a majestic captain’s 17th-century mansion along Key Street in Greenport, in accordance to acclaimed artwork historian and curator Alison Gingeras, who structured the show at the…
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Brighton’s Soho House outpost opens with David Shrigley banana pool and the largest permanent display of queer art in the UK
When David Shrigley was asked to create a operate for a semi-round swimming pool at Brighton Beach front Residence, Soho House’s most recent outpost on the south coastline of England, the style was, he states, a “no-brainer”. As he puts it: “It’s an arc, so what is it heading to be? A banana. It can not actually be a cucumber as they are not bendy more than enough.” The banana, rendered in vibrant yellow mosaic tiles with splodges of brown, curls spherical the base of the pool, which overlooks the seafront to the east of Brighton pier in which the place known as Kemp City begins. All-around the rim of…
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NGV’s Queer advances a beautiful and challenging reading of the queer gaze in art
Review: Queer, National Gallery of Victoria Many exhibitions claim to be a landmark show, but few live up to the hype. This one exceeds the hype. Queer is a beautiful, strange, hard-hitting and challenging exhibition where the central concept is like liquid mercury that, on hitting a hard surface, instantly scatters into innumerable droplets – each perfect in itself. It is a show about art made by people who consider themselves as queer. In some cases, it is an exploration of gender and sexuality. In others, it is a journey into a sensibility or an interpretation of existing art made by non-queer artists that can be interpreted through a queer…
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