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"MENERGY: Gay Male Magazines of the 1940s-1980s" is on exhibit at the Jefferson Market Library, 425 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan, through July 31.

‘Menergy’ exhibition brings 1940s-1980s gay magazines out of the closet

By Dashiell Allen

"Group on Petra, Lake Mahopac" (1888).

Daguerreotype, day trips, and devastation: the Met explores early US photography

By Nicholas Boston

From left to right: Jathan Martin, Dr. Roderick A. Ferguson, Cornelius Moore, Aishah Shahidah Simmons, Darnell L. Moore, Dr. Ahmad Greene-Hayes.

‘Speaks to the moment we are in’: Panelists reexamine Marlon Riggs’ ‘Tongues Untied’ three decades later

By Nicholas Boston

James Baldwin works on his novel, "Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone," in 1965.

Brooklyn Public Library zooms in on James Baldwin’s decade in Istanbul

By Nicholas Boston

Portrait of Belle da Costa Greene, 1911, by the photographer Clarence H. White.

Morgan Library honors the dual life of inaugural director Belle da Costa Greene

By Nicholas Boston

"The Plural of He" runs until July 21 at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art.

Group exhibition engages the past lives of Colin Robinson, late godfather of New York and Caribbean LGBTQ+ movements

By Nicholas Boston

New Yorkers love to dress in a wide range of costumes at the Village's annual Halloween Parade.

Spooky costumes take over Village Halloween Parade

By Donna Aceto

“A District Defined: Streets, Sex, and Survival” is on display through July 9.

Meatpacking District’s ‘Streets, Sex, and Survival’ recalls LGBTQ nightlife of ’80s and ’90s

By Andy Humm

JC Leyendecker (1874-1951) was an award-winning commercial artist specializing in male figures who settled in New York in 1902.

Cult of masculinity

By David Kennerley

Kehinde Wiley at the opening of "Havana" at Sean Kelly Gallery.

Kehinde Wiley’s ‘Havana’ explores the circus from an Afro-diasporic context

By Nicholas Boston

Chella Man said his art installation "is basically about breaking elevator etiquette."

From Industry City, Chella Man invites you to think outside the box

By Jang Kapgen

Mickalene Thomas.

Mickalene Thomas honors Pauli Murray in mosaic mural at Yale

By Nicholas Boston

The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art's current exhibition, “Images on which to build, 1970s – 1990s,” runs until July 30.

The archive is the agent: Exhibition charts trans, feminist, and lesbian educational projects of the 1970s to 1990s

By Nicholas Boston

French artist Nicolas Guerin behind artwork.

French dollhouse artist brings mini art to New York

By Amy Schatz

David Antonio Cruz, “iamtheimmenseshadowofmytears,thehopesofmylover,dreamsofmyancestors,” 2022.

Dozens of visual artists showcase queer love in group exhibition

By Nicholas Boston

Last Look: David LaChapelle’s “make BELIEVE”

By Nicholas Boston

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