Performing Ambiguity: The Art of Tseng Kwong Chi
In his all too short career, the photographer rejected conventional codes of identity and insisted on new, ambiguous conditions of being.
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SAAM Stories: Pride
Celebrating LGBTQ+ artists in SAAM's collection and community.
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Contemporary Craft in Focus: The Queer Houses of Brooklyn
Artist L.J. Roberts integrates queer theory with traditional “domestic crafts” such as knitting and embroidery.Categories -
Artists, Friends, Lovers: Paul Cadmus and George Tooker
Celebrating Pride with paintings by two artists whose lives intersected and whose artworks explore similar themesCategories -
Drawn to Romaine Brooks
Celebrating the renowned artist with a comic about her life and workCategories -
A Brush with History: Good Hair Advice Is Never Out of Style
Three years ago we imagined the letters of nineteenth-century portrait sitters to Jonathan Van Ness, star of the Netflix’s series Queer Eye. With so many of us looking for advice about how to tame our unmanageable pandemic hair, we thought we’d take another look.Categories -
Laura Aguilar Photographs in Focus: Latina LesbiansClaudia Zapata, curatorial assistant for Latinx art, shares their insights on a series of photographs by Laura Aguilar recently acquired by SAAMCategories -
Romaine Brooks: Clothes Make the Wo(man)
Romaine Brooks declaring who she is in her 1923 work, Self-Portrait, is ultimately a transgressive act for a LGBTQ+ person.Categories -
Nancy Grossman and the Art of Unlearning
Twisting Column Figure represents the freedom that comes once we commit to unlearning and undoing restrictions, from society and from ourselves.Categories -
Chicanx Queer Visions: Fighting for Change and Exploring Identity
Artists in ¡Printing the Revolution! explore pressing issues of the LGBTQ+ communityCategories -
Sculpting Pride: Timothy Horn’s artworks delve into the human and natural worlds
Learn more about the artwork and evolving career of Timothy Horn, feature artist in Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020Categories -
What Does a Gay Bar Look Like?
Bernard Perlin’s The Bar makes us reflect on the spaces we’ve carved out as our own.Categories -
Chicanx Graphic Arts in Focus: Quiero Mis QueerceArtist and activist Julio Salgado challenges a traditional rite of passageCategories -
Seeing the Rainbow in SAAM’s Collection
Taking a deeper look at how we talk about gay artists at SAAMCategories -
Artist Brendan Fernandes On the Dance Floor as a Space for Resistance and Resilience
Dancer/choreographer Brendan Fernandes talks about his work, including Free Fall 49, making its East Coast debut at SAAM on June 9. -
Popping (Up) With Pride at SAAM
Saisha Grayson, curator of time-based media at SAAM, discusses the pop-up exhibition for the June 9 celebration of Pride.