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Fashion photographer Marco Ovando is excited to announce the release of his first photography book, The Dolls, featuring icons of the hit award-winning program, RuPaul’s Drag Race. Ovando has worked extensively with many of the drag queens in the wildly-popular international “Werq the World Tour”, and most recently due to Covid-19, the “Drive N’ Drag Tour”, where the talent […]
Nancy Manocherian’s the cell theatre (Artistic Director Kira Simring) presents its first residency of 2021, Life Is Drag, an exhibition showcasing the video portraits of Rachel Rampleman. Exploring subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle, Rampleman documents the most innovative and singular performers of the currently exploding international alt-drag and burlesque scenes, a portion of […]
Contemporary Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929) is one of the most popular artists in the world, inspiring millions to experience her immersive installations.
In coordination with New York State’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 and in order to mount the best possible exhibition, KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, our multisensory presentation of Yayoi Kusama’s profound connection […]
Acquavella Galleries is pleased to announce that they will present an exhibition of recent paintings by Tom Sachs from 2019-2020. Although painting has been a focus of the artist’s practice since the mid-1990s, Tom Sachs: Handmade Paintings, which will feature entirely new works, represents the first exhibition to focus exclusively on Sachs’ work in the […]
Warhol developed an increasing fascination with the complexity of gender and identity in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, and Jackie Curtis were a few of Warhol’s most famous trans Superstars. At that time, and still today, trans people faced tremendous violence, injustice and harassment. During the early 70s, Warhol […]
One of the most critically acclaimed and controversial American artists of the late twentieth century, Robert Mapplethorpe created daring and formally rigorous photographs. He is widely known for images that deliberately transgressed social mores and for the censorship debates that transformed him into a symbol of the culture wars in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In […]
