{"id":15269,"date":"2016-09-01T08:43:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T06:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=15269"},"modified":"2017-03-14T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T12:09:20","slug":"gay-gotham-art-and-underground-culture-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/gay-gotham-art-and-underground-culture-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Excerpts from the press release by Gay Gotham<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York<\/em>, brings to life the queer creative networks that sprang up in the city across the 20th century\u2014a series of artistic subcultures whose radical ideas had lasting effects on the mainstream. The exhibition featues famous artists such as Mae West, Leonard Bernstein and Andy Warhol, and invites the visitors to discover lesser-known ones, such as feminist artist Harmony Hammond, painter and writer Richard Bruce Nugent, and transgender artist Greer Lankton. Surprising relationships emerge: Warhol and Mercedes de Acosta; Robert Mapplethorpe and Cecil Beaton; George Platt Lynes and Gertrude Stein.<\/p>\n<p>The opening panel:<br \/>\n\u201cGay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York\u201d<br \/>\nThursday, October 6 at 5:00 pm at the Museum of the City of New York<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Queer people have always flocked to New York City seeking freedom and forging close-knit groups for mutual support and inspiration. Our new exhibition Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York brings to life the LGBT artistic communities that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose radical ideas would greatly influence the definition and evolution of &#8220;modern&#8221; culture in New York City. To celebrate the exhibition\u2019s opening, join artist and activist Harmony Hammond, writer and activist Sarah Schulman, and moderator Bryan Lowder, associate editor of Slate, for a lively panel discussion exploring the cultural dynamics of gay New York, past, present, and future.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Harmony Hammond, feminist artist, writer, and independent curator<br \/>\nBryan Lowder, Associate Editor for Slate<br \/>\nSarah Schulman, novelist, playwright, and journalist<\/p>\n<p>The reception will begin at 7 pm. The exhibition opens to the public on October 7, 2016 and will run through March 26, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening panel: \u201cGay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York\u201d with Harmony Hammond, Bryan Lowder and Sarah Shulman. Thursday, October 6 at 5:00 pm at the Museum of the City of New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[179],"class_list":["post-15269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-panel-debate","tag-harmony-hammond"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}