ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, LEATHER PICTURES
He treated a man clad in leather or latex with the same grace that he captured a flower: like a modern Midas with a camera, everything he touched turned to black-and-white beauty…
MARK MCKNIGHT, IN THIS TEMPORARILY PREVAILING LANDSCAPE, 2018 - PRESENT
Landscapes and queer bodies appear in flux as McKnight blurs a multitude of formal and figurative boundaries: earth and flesh, self and subject, artist and documentarian…
FRANCES STARK, NOTHING IS ENOUGH, 2012
Nothing is Enough consists of documented text fragments from Frances Stark’s online chat with a young Italian man, ranging from contemplative, self-reflective discussions to cybersex…
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, 2022
Fearless documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras’s career-long pursuit of truth and justice finds powerful expression in an epic story of art, activism, and survival…
RAGNAR KJARTANSSON, THE VISITORS, 2012
Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s nine-screen installation The Visitors was filmed at the historic Rokeby farm in upstate New York. Kjartansson invited a group of friends to stay with him for a week at the ethereal, yet decrepit estate, culminating in the ambitious performance…
SHARON HAYES, RICERCHE: TWO, 2020
Ricerche is a 5 part video series that steps off Pier Paolo Pasolini’s brilliant 1963 film, Comizi d’Amore, to stage a contemporary inquiry into the “sexual problem” in the United States…
SHAKA MCGLOTTEN, BLACK DATA, 2014
Shaka McGlotten employs the notion of “black data” to explore how black queers trouble the invisible or taken-for-granted operations of states and corporations that seek to acquire and store detailed dossiers of citizen-consumers…
COLLIER SCHORR, WRESTLERS
I like devastation. I like exhaustion. I really like seeing someone that I know can’t barely get up…
ANNE NOGGLE, WORLD WAR II WOMEN PILOTS
With black and white photography, Anne Noggle (1922–2005) confronts themes of gender equality and aging through portraits of World War II women pilots in the United States and the Soviet Union…
NIKOLAI URSIN, BEHIND EVERY GOOD MAN, 1967
Produced several years before the historic Stonewall uprising for LGBTQ rights in 1969, director Nikolai Ursin's gently-activist short Behind Every Good Man (c. 1967) provides an illuminating glimpse into the life of an African-American trans woman…
RAMELL ROSS, SOUTH COUNTY, AL (A HALE COUNTY), 2012
Having lived, worked, and photographed in Hale County, Alabama, for almost ten years, RaMell Ross has produced a series of quietly powerful photographs—South County, AL (a Hale County)—that meditate on the myths of blackness in the American South…
JULIANA HUXTABLE, THERE ARE CERTAIN FACTS THAT CANNOT BE DISPUTED, 2015
Artist, writer, and nightlife impresario Juliana Huxtable presents her new performance There Are Certain Facts that Cannot Be Disputed, co-commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art and Performa, which highlights her evocative use of language and written text…
GILLIAN WEARING, 2 INTO 1, 1997
The short video projection 2 into 1 (1997) features a mother and her twin sons talk about each other, one generation lip-synching the dubbed words of the other…
JEN DENIKE, FLAG GIRLS, 2007
Jen DeNike's video Flag Girls features six women wrapped in hand-sewn flags. As the video loop plays, the women unwrap themselves to reveal their nude bodies…
LORRAINE O’GRADY, BODY IS THE GROUND OF MY EXPERIENCE
BodyGround, shorthand for Body Is the Ground of My Experience, refers to the photomontages produced by O’Grady for her first one-person exhibit, at INTAR Gallery, NYC, Jan 21–Feb 22, 1991…
TINA TAKEMOTO, LOOKING FOR JIRO, 2011
Looking for Jiro is a queer meditation on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II…
TOURMALINE, ATLANTIC IS A SEA OF BONES, 2017
Atlantic is a Sea of Bones is a short film drawing from the Lucille Clifton poem of the same name that follows Egyptt LaBejia, an NYC based performer through the 80s, 90s, and 2000's in NYC…
XANDRA IBARRA, SPICTACLE II: LA TORTILLERA, 2014
La Tortillera was developed as a live performance in 2004. The performance was later archived for camera in 2014. In Spictacle II: La Tortillera takes on her own racial bondage to hot sauce, tacos, and demographic panic in “Tortillera”…
VALIE EXPORT, GENITAL PANIC
Genitalpanik (Genital Panic) is a series of photographs and posters that emerged from an action VALIE EXPORT performed in Munich in 1968…
STORAGE GALLERY, VALUE OF PORN PANEL DISCUSSION
Storage Gallery and artist Barbara Nitke host a roundtable discussing the Value of Porn with panelists…