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For African Dykes, Zanele Muholi

For African Dykes, Zanele Muholi

BY KELLY JEAN COGSWELL | I forget sometimes how important art is, what images can do. Last week I got blown away by an exhibit in Chelsea at the Yancey Richardson Gallery. The photographer was Zanele Muholi. Her subjects were African dykes like herself. They stare out from the prints in their best ball caps and [...]

February 27, 20133 CommentsRead More

Mid-Winter Escape

Mid-Winter Escape

BY DAVID NOH | The holiday season of the particularly difficult year that was 2012 brought a true rite of passage for me with the death of my father, Edwin Cha Son Noh. He was quite a guy, having served at Pearl Harbor in 1941, owned and operated hotels in Waikiki, opened the first real [...]

January 16, 2013No CommentRead More

Haute Hepburn

Haute Hepburn

BY DAVID NOH | Along with so much else — that voice, that manner, that talent — Katharine Hepburn, the most enduring screen actress of the last century, was known for her tailored, mannish look. That no-nonsense, scrubbed American demeanor, her hair piled up a la concierge (as she called it), invariably attired in slacks (usually [...]

November 8, 2012No CommentRead More

A Retrospective of Joyful Spirituality

A Retrospective of Joyful Spirituality

BY JOHNATHAN MORPURGO | Among the mountains of art available for viewing in the city, Westbeth Gallery’s vibrant “Remembering Carmen Promutico” retrospective is a gem. In the midst of sister Jean Promutico’s own impressive retrospective at Westbeth, Carmen’s show is a visual feast of 40 years of drawing, painting, and assemblage nestled into a tight room. [...]

November 8, 2012No CommentRead More

Rachelle, Tituss, and Antonio

Rachelle, Tituss, and Antonio

BY DAVID NOH | Rachelle Rak, the ultimate Broadway gypsy in a plethora of shows, ironically emerged as the star of a movie in which she played a definite loser. “Every Little Step,” about the making of the 2006 revival of “A Chorus Line,” devastatingly showed Rak losing the perfect-for-her role of Sheila — though, [...]

October 10, 2012No CommentRead More

Evita: Gay Icon Then & Now

Evita: Gay Icon Then & Now

BY MICHAEL LUONGO | As Evita lay dying of cervical cancer in the presidential residence in 1952, her skin sallow and thin, a man sat with her, whispering, “To be a faggot, to be poor, what they say of Eva Peron in this ruthless country is the same thing.” Eva was in shimmering white, foreshadowing [...]

September 12, 20122 CommentsRead More

The Flurry in a Moment

The Flurry in a Moment

BY MICHAEL LUONGO | A still life in kinetic motion. That could be a description for a moment in New York, where even in a quick glance or an image captured in a photograph, the scene still always seems to be in motion. It’s also one of the best ways to describe the paintings of [...]

June 21, 20121 CommentRead More

Recalling Sexual Politics on the Piers

Recalling Sexual Politics on the Piers

BY MICHAEL LUONGO |  For young New Yorkers knowing only a sanitized, seemingly well ordered, affluent Manhattan, the overtly sexual gay life on the Hudson River piers in Lower Manhattan in the 1970s seems another world. All the more reason the period needs to be catalogued and remembered. “The Piers: Art and Sex along the [...]

May 29, 20121 CommentRead More

Blackwashing Israel

Blackwashing Israel

BY YOAV SIVAN | This spring, the Jewish Museum is preoccupied with Israeli men. On the second floor of the Museum Mile institution, 14 large-scale canvases offer Kehinde Wiley’s insightful take on the subject, which manages to say something refreshingly meaningful about Israel. This might be in part because Wiley is not Jewish and has [...]

April 11, 2012No CommentRead More

Us, In All Our Glory|Brooklyn Museum’s “Hide/ Seek”: a total queer revelati

 BY DAVID NOH  |  If you really want to feel some pure, unadulterated gay pride, by all means get yourself to the Brooklyn Museum to see “Hide/ Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture.” The first major museum exhibit to focus on queer identity in this nation’s portraiture, it is, in a word, magnificent — [...]

January 4, 2012No CommentRead More