It just isn’t Christmas until you’ve heard Lady Bunny put a raunchy, politically-incorrect spin on your favorite Christmas carol…rejoice! The drag icon returns to Times Square with the World Premiere of Lady Bunny: A Very Blue Christmas.
Everyone’s favorite holiday ham, Lady Bunny gives her trademark potty-mouthed parody treatment to over 30 Christmas classics that […]
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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 […]
Betsey Johnson has really lost the plot! Prom dresses $75, day frocks $50, and tops and bottoms for 25 bucks…love a cheap bottom!
Millenium Broadway Hotel, 145 W 44th St at Broadway, 6th Fl, NYC, 212-789-7546, May6-8, 10am-8pm, www.betseyjohnson.com
TUESDAY 5
Stella McCartney Trunk Show
Brit designer Stella McCartney, known for her leather-free products, is in NYC doing a trunk show of her Fall 09 designs. Get a frock and check out the Q&A hosted by legendary Barneys window designer Simon Doonan.
Barneys New York, 660 Madison Ave, NYC, 212-826-8900, 1-3pm, www.barneys.com
Lady Sovereign + Chester French + […]
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 […]
MONDAY 4
Electric Six have often been confused with being some freakish, euro-trash band. But in actuality, they’re basically a garage band from Motown. Known for whimsically disturbing videos like Danger! High Voltage, which explores feelings of gerontophila, and Gay Bar, the ode to everything homo (later covered by Peaches), E6 have managed to muster up […]
Through more than 250 objects dating from the seventeenth century to the present, The Costume Institute’s spring 2019 exhibition explores the origins of camp’s exuberant aesthetic. Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay “Notes on ‘Camp’” provides the framework for the exhibition, which examines how the elements of irony, humor, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality, and exaggeration are expressed […]
The Costume Institute’s fall 2023 exhibition will explore the creativity and artistic legacy of women fashion designers from The Met’s permanent collection, tracing a lineage of makers from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day by highlighting celebrated designers, new voices, and forgotten histories alike.
Women Dressing Women will feature the work of over seventy […]
FRIDAYS
It’s double trouble when two NYC drag queen legends serve up shenanigans on the mic! Ruby Roo and RuPaul’s Drag Race star Brita Filter host weekly at the iconic Pieces Bar in the West Village, with VJ OHRICKY.
Pieces Bar, 8 Christopher St, NYC, Free
