John Jarboe gets to the heart of "coming out" through absurdist deconstructions of domestic spaces — like this bone-framed video of the artist carving a chicken inside a fridge.
John Jarboe: The Rose Garden The Fabric Workshop and Museum 1214 Arch St. Philadelphia Sept. 21, 2024
When artist John Jarboe came out as trans, her aunt didn’t hesitate to weigh in: “You had a twin in the womb. You ate her. That’s why you are the way you are.” In turn, Jarboe has delivered an art exhibit dedicated to her unborn twin, Rose.
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Melissa Saywell
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Sep 20, 2024 11:23 am
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SCI-FI, MAGICK, QUEER L.A.: SEXUALSCIENCEANDTHEIMAGI-NATIONOPENINGRECEPTION Fisher Museum of Art at University of Southern California Los Angeles Sept. 5, 2024
A map at the entrance to the USC Fisher Museum of Art’s newest exhibit, Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation (SFMQLA), weaves meandering pathways among the names of pivotal figures, organizations, and works representing Los Angeles’s storied past, from the early gay rights group the Mattachine Society to the Scottish Rite Freemasons, from the muscle magazine Physique Pictorial to silent film star Jane Wolfe, from French erotic novelist Anaïs Nin to the painter Frieda Harris to Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, and more.
What follows, as one explores the exhibit, is an ambitious interdisciplinary project — the first of its kind — a collaborative effort between two USC stalwarts, the ONE Archives, one of the world’s largest collections of LGBTQ+ historical materials, and the Fisher Museum, home to a diverse collection of American and European artworks.
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Emily Cohen
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Aug 20, 2024 4:51 pm
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Rodin Garden Bar Rodin Museum Philadelphia Aug. 16, 2024
Over the summer months, the garden at the Rodin Museum transforms. Guests flock to what becomes the weekly Friday Pop-Up Garden Bar, where they can explore drinks and small plates and see what pairs best with the garden’s stunning works of art — all by sculptor Auguste Rodin.
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Z.B. Reeves
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Jun 28, 2024 1:49 pm
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Host Evan Hughes far left, winner Chelsea Green far right
Welcome To PUNderland: The Great Philbrook Pun-Off Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa June 21, 2024
I love it when Philbrook does something outside their realm of expertise. During his eight years as its CEO, Scott Stulen — who recently announced that he’s taking a job as Director of the Seattle Museum of Art — made a point of positioning the museum as a fun space, not just as a museum, and that tactic works well in terms of crowd accumulation, even if the Fun Things themselves are sometimes a little awkward. The Philbrook Pun-Off was no exception.
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Jamil Ragland
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May 24, 2024 5:41 pm
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The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union Mark Twain House and Museum Hartford May 23, 2024
I concede that not many people spend a lot of time thinking about the Civil War and 19th century history. But if you’ve heard of Charles Sumner, then it’s probably because you’re familiar with his infamous caning 168 years ago last week.
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Brandon Sward
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May 8, 2024 3:25 pm
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PAULPFEIFFER: PROLOGUETOTHESTORYOFTHEBIRTHOFFREEDOM Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles Through June 16, 2024
I hate sports. I’ve come around to physical activity in general, but something about sports … Maybe it’s the arbitrariness of their rules, or the oxygen of public discourse they consume. More likely, it’s because most of the hot dudes at my high school were good at them, and back then, my angsty teenage self felt lacking in both the athletic and attractiveness departments.
Woodworker Jesse Rinyu and Poet LindoYes attempt to fix their shared sculpture's nutty brain.
LindoYes performs his poem, "Irregular Heartbeat."
The Poetry Gumball Machine Project Museum for Art in Wood 141 N. 3rd St. Philadelphia April 27, 2024
“Tough love is being punched until you don’t cry — and crying is the only thing that stops the punching from hurting as much,” Philly Poet and local organizer LindoYes recited softly. His words were resonant enough to reach his audience without relying on a mic as he stood next to a wooden robot designed to dispense his poems — and social service supports — to the city at large.
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Robin Lapid
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Feb 19, 2024 11:00 am
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The "Black Migration Stories" exhibit at the Camron-Stanford House in Oakland.
Opening event Town Treasures: Black Migration Stories Camron-Stanford House Oakland Feb. 16, 2024
Even if you regularly walk along Lake Merritt in Oakland, you might not notice the Camron-Stanford House, the stately old Victorian sitting on the southwestern shore. Somehow, it never caught my eye. At sunset on Friday, I overheard a couple strolling past the house as one struggled to place its history (“That’s an old landmark or something”).
It’s actually a former home built in 1876 by Samuel Merritt and owned by a succession of wealthy Victorian families, before it was bought by the City of Oakland and served as the original Oakland Museum until 1965. Now it’s a historical landmark open to the public, offering tours, events, and exhibits, which was why I found myself roaming its Victorian rooms upstairs, and attending the opening reception for its latest exhibit downstairs, “Town Treasures: Black Migration Stories.”
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Jamil Ragland
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Feb 5, 2024 3:32 pm
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Stowe's parlor, where seances occurred.
Spiritualism as Resistance: Spirits at Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford Feb. 2, 2024
The central truth of American history is that every question you can ask has its answer in slavery. It is the foundation of the United States, predating its existence and continuing to reverberate throughout the present.
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Rebecca Giordano
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Jan 28, 2024 3:00 pm
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YOSHIESAKAI: GRANDMAENTERTAINMENTFRANCHISE Vincent Price Art Museum Monterey Park, Cal. Through Feb. 3, 2024
Like the siren song of a real nightclub, a karaoke version of “Fergalicious” lures visitors from the front desk of the Vincent Price Art Museum into a kitschy carnival for an unlikely audience. Yoshie Sakai: Grandma Entertainment Franchise features three installations that each simulate a commonplace leisure space: Grandma Day Spa, Grandma Nightclub, and Grandma Amusement Park. Past a merch stand, past an inflatable heart-shaped pool – cum – video screen in front of two tulip chairs serving as Grandma Day Spa, past the merry-go-round with TV/VCRs riding sorbet-colored cryptids, visitors reach Grandma Nightclub. The videos on the carousel show duplications of Sakai in gray wigs dancing, playing instruments, and hyping up other grandmas
At the beginning of the Stranger Times exhibit, panels are situated in a circle, citing the Emmy-winning Netflix show Stranger Things as part of the origin story. Stranger Times uses the show’s alternate dimension “the upside down” to symbolize what life was like for teens living in Durham at the height of Covid-19. A spotlight is put on every area of their life that changed.
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Jamil Ragland
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Jan 22, 2024 12:03 pm
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Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America Mark Twain House Hartford Jan. 19, 2024
My journey through college was not an easy one. It took me three different schools spread across 10 years to finally earn my bachelors degree. In the meantime I’d had a son, been married and divorced, moved and changed jobs several times. College is difficult enough for young adults with few responsibilities; it becomes almost impossible when you also have a family to care for.
I would have never made it without the support of professors and other staff when I got to Trinity College, especially my major advisor, Professor Scott Gac. He’s one of the kindest, most patient people I’ve ever met, which makes his study of the brutal violence in American history all the more ironic.
