"Christian Walker"& "As the World Burns" Two-Day Reception and Panel

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Join us for food and drinks to celebrate "Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant" and "As the World Burns"

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The Tufts University Art Galleries are pleased to announce the upcoming exhibitions, <a href="https://artgalleries.tufts.edu/exhibitions/179-christian-walker-the-profane-and-the-poignant" title="https://artgalleries.tufts.edu/exhibitions/179-christian-walker-the-profane-and-the-poignant" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant</a> and <a href="https://artgalleries.tufts.edu/exhibitions/180-as-the-world-burns-queer-photography-and-nightlife-in-boston" title="https://artgalleries.tufts.edu/exhibitions/180-as-the-world-burns-queer-photography-and-nightlife-in-boston" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston</a>. Join us for a Reception on Thursday, February 1st from 6-8pm, and come back on Friday, February 2nd, from 12-1:30pm for a Panel on Christian Walker with co-curators Noam Parness &amp; Jackson Davidow, featuring Dr. Deborah Willis. Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant surveys the work of artist, critic, and curator Christian Walker (1953–2003). A 1984 graduate of the SMFA, Walker was a path-making gay Black photographer active in Boston and Atlanta, and made compelling and experimental work about queer sexuality, race, and their intersections from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. Organized by the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, the exhibition is co-curated by Jackson Davidow and Noam Parness, in partnership with TUAG Curator Laurel V. McLaughlin. Read more about the exhibition in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/arts/design/what-to-see-in-nyc-galleries-in-october.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" title="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/04/arts/design/what-to-see-in-nyc-galleries-in-october.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The New York Times </a>and <a href="https://brooklynrail.org/2023/11/artseen/Christian-Walker-The-Profane-and-the-Poignant" title="https://brooklynrail.org/2023/11/artseen/Christian-Walker-The-Profane-and-the-Poignant" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Brooklyn Rail.</a> Accompanying Christian Walker, As the World Burns explores the relationship among community photographic practices, queer nightlife, and gay liberation in Boston and offers a wider historical context for Walker’s queer navigation of art and life in Boston (1974 to 1984).

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