The Whitney Museum of (Queer) American Art

Professor Andrew Lear is a world-renowned expert on sexuality in art and the author of the best-known book on sexuality in Greek vase-painting.  He is the founder of Oscar Wilde Tours, the gay history tour company, and Shady Ladies Tours, the woman's history tour company.

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Come discover how queer The Whitney Museum of American Art is on this virtual online Zoom tour of the museum and its incredible collection!

Since its founding in the early 20th century, the Whitney Museum has been dedicated to collecting works of American Art, often focusing on representational paintings that tell the story of the country&#x27;s shifting social and political landscape. Though this mission has expanded over the years, one of its lesser-known virtues is that the museum became an early home for artworks that depict queer life (in coded and explicit ways) in the modern city. In this tour, Joshua Lubin-Levy will guide audiences through the long history of queerness as it appears in the museum&#x27;s collection, beginning with the early twentieth century and moving into the present. Highlights will include works by Marsden HartleyBerenice AbbottPaul CadmusLaura AguilarCathy Opie, and many more!

<h1>Speaker Bio</h1>Josh Lubin-Levy is the Joan Tisch Senior Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art and recently completed his Ph.D. in Performance Studies at NYU. His scholarship centers on the intersection of dematerialization and collection-defying arts practices that emerges within postwar American art, with a particular focus on the turn towards performance and performative strategies in queer and feminist arts practices. For the past twelve years, he has worked as a dance dramaturg and performance curator. He currently teaches in the department of Visual Studies at the New School and in the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University.

<h2>FAQs</h2>When will the Zoom invite come?The Zoom invite will be sent to your email address 24 hrs before the event, followed by subsequent reminder emails that will include the Zoom link. Please check your spam and social folders if you do not see it in your inbox. If you do not receive a Zoom invitation by 1hr before the event please get in contact with us.What time zone is the event scheduled in?The event is scheduled for 2pm Eastern Daylight Time (i.e. New York time). You can watch it in any time zone but please adjust to the time zone you are in.Will the event be recorded and available to view later?Yes the event will be recorded, please get in touch with us on an individual basis.

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