Queer virtual tour of The Whitney Museum of American Art
Discover how queer The Whitney Museum of American Art is on this virtual online Zoom tour of the museum and its incredible collection!
Cost: $10. Please note that this fee helps keep our small business going during the crisis so we can get up and running right away when it is safe to bring people together again in person.
Tickets: queerwhitneytour.eventcombo.com
Since its founding in the early 20th century, the Whitney Museum has been dedicated to collecting works of American Art, often focusing on representational paintings that tell the story of the country's shifting social and political landscape. Though this mission has expanded over the years, one of its lesser-known virtues is that the museum became an early home for artworks that depict queer life (in coded and explicit ways) in the modern city. In this tour, Joshua Lubin-Levy will guide audiences through the long history of queerness as it appears in the museum's collection, beginning with the early twentieth century and moving into the present.
Highlights will include works by
Marsden Hartley
Berenice Abbott
Paul Cadmus
Laura Aguilar
Cathy Opie, and many more!
More about our speaker:
Josh Lubin-Levy is the Joan Tisch Senior Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art and recently completed his Ph.D. in Performance Studies at NYU. His scholarship centers on the intersection of dematerialization and collection-defying arts practices that emerges within postwar American art, with a particular focus on the turn towards performance and performative strategies in queer and feminist arts practices. For the past twelve years, he has worked as a dance dramaturg and performance curator. He currently teaches in the department of Visual Studies at the New School and in the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University.
More about our speaker:
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