Book Talk: Still Dangerous!
Press release courtesy of Harmony Hammond
Presented by Leslie-Lohman Museum
Book Talk
Still Dangerous! The Harmony Hammond Reader edited by Tirza True Latimer
Thursday, 10/29/2026
6:30pm EDT – 8:30pm EDT
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
26 Wooster Street
New York, New York 10013, USA
Celebrate the release of Still Dangerous! The Harmony Hammond Reader, edited by Tirza True Latimer, with pioneering artist, writer, educator, and curator Harmony Hammond. Featuring a conversation between Hammond, artist Steve Locke, and editor Tirza True Latimer, this gathering offers an opportunity to engage with the work and legacy of one of the defining figures of New York’s feminist and lesbian art movements.
Still Dangerous!, with an introduction by Latimer and a foreword by Julia Bryan-Wilson, brings together five decades of Hammond’s writings addressing the historical invisibility of women and lesbian artists, the politics of gender and sexuality in contemporary creative practice, materiality, feminism’s expanding purview, resisting censorship, and strategies of feminist and queer abstraction. Compiling essays, reviews, artist’s statements, presentations, letters, and interviews, Still Dangerous! fleshes out Hammond’s career while providing a valuable resource for scholars and students of contemporary culture.
Harmony Hammond (b. 1944) is an artist, educator, writer, and independent curator. A leading figure in the development of the feminist art movement in New York in the early 1970s, she attended the University of Minnesota from 1963–67, before moving to New York in 1969. She was a co-founder of A.I.R., the first women’s co-operative art gallery founded in New York during the second wave of feminism (1972), and Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics (1976). Since 1984, Hammond has lived and worked in northern New Mexico, teaching at the University of Arizona, Tucson from 1989–2006. Hammond’s earliest feminist work combined gender politics with post-minimal concerns of materials and process, frequently occupying a space between painting and sculpture – a focus that continues to this day.
Steve Locke (b.1963) was born in Cleveland, OH and lives and works in the Hudson Valley, NY. Spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, Locke’s practice critically engages with the Western canon to muse on the connections between desire, identity, and violence.
Tirza True Latimer is Professor Emerita of History of Art and Visual Culture at the California College of Art, San Francisco. Her published work reflects on modern and contemporary visual culture from queer feminist perspectives. She is co-editor, with Whitney Chadwick, of the anthology The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris between the Wars (Rutgers University Press, 2003) and the author of Women Together / Women Apart: Portraits of Lesbian Paris (Rutgers University Press, 2005). She is co-author, with Wanda Corn, of Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories (University of California Press, 2011), companion book for an exhibition organized by the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. Her latest book, Eccentric Modernisms: Making Differences in the History of American Art, was released by UC Press in 2016. The exhibition “Other Points of View” (Leslie-Lehman Museum of Art, 2020) grew out of this research.
New Publication
Still Dangerous! The Harmony Hammond Reader
Edited by Tirza True Latimer
Author: Harmony Hammond; Editor: Tirza True Latimer; Foreword: Julia Bryan-Wilson; Contributors: Carlos Motta, Clarity Haynes, Courtney Dailey, Elvan Zabunyan, Holland Cotter, Jarrett Earnest, Jenn Shapland, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Lester Strong, MaLin Wilson Powell, Phillip Griffith, Tara Burk, Tyler Green, Ulrike Müller
Published by Duke University Press, 2026
530 pages, English
