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Morning View – Cleveland MOCA

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Afternoon View – Cleveland Museum Of Art

The buildings on the right and left house the main exhibits. In the middle today local artists were selling prints of their work.

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NYT Disses AIDS History Exhibit

AIDS In NYC: The First Five Years has been running all summer at the New York Historical Society.  Yesterday the New York Times issued a scathing review. After seeing this show, a newcomer to this history would be hard pressed to understand the rise of the street-activist group Act Up, the takeover of the Food and Drug Administration headquarters by …

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The Smithsonian Wants Trayvon’s Hoodie

The Smithsonian has expressed an interest in acquiring the hoodie worn by Trayvon Martin on the night he was murdered. Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture told The Washington Post Martin’s hoodie represents an to further the discussion about race in America. “It became the symbolic way to talk the Trayvon Martin …

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Museum Exhibition Opening On June 7th: AIDS in New York: The First Five Years

Opening June 7th at the New York Historical Society:  AIDS in New York: The First Five Years will explore the impact of the epidemic on personal lives, public health and medical practices, culture, and politics in New York City and the nation. Drawing from the archives of the New York Public Library, New York University, and the National Archive of …

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Make-Up Mogul Leonard Lauder Makes Billion Dollar Gift To NYC’s Met Museum

Leonard Lauder, the chairman emeritus of Estee Lauder, has agreed to donate his billion dollar collection of cubist paintings to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum. The trove of signature works, which includes 33 Picassos, 17 Braques, 14 Légers and 14 works by Gris, is valued at more than $1 billion. It puts Mr. Lauder, who for years has been one …

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NEW YORK: Atheist Group Loses Bid To Block Display Of 9/11 Cross

On Friday a federal court dismissed the lawsuit filed by an atheist group that objects to the display of a “9/11 cross” at the soon-to-open 9/11 Memorial Museum. Judge Batts wrote that the cross and its accompanying panels of text helped “demonstrate how those at ground zero coped with the devastation they witnessed.” She called its purpose “historical and secular,” …

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FLORIDA: World AIDS Museum Proposed For Tourism Mecca Wilton Manors

Wilton Manors, Florida is arguably the hottest gay vacation spot in the nation and it may one day be home to the World AIDS Museum & Education Center. The proposed museum is the brainchild of local long-term HIV survivor Steve Stagnon, who unveiled the plans at a ceremony this week. Tony Adams reports at South Florida Gay News: Having managed …

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LGBT History Museum Proposed For DC

Furniture mogul Mitchell Gold and his husband have proposed a national LGBT history museum for Washington DC. They’ve already started collecting items. There are protest signs from demonstrations nationwide. There is a filmstrip of a 1970 gay pride parade in New York, which Gold serendipitously found buried in a case of gay porn contributed by the Museum of Sex. (“You …

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SAN FRANCISCO: Windows Smashed At Castro’s GLBT Historical Society

From their Facebook page: Two windows at The GLBT History Museum were smashed in an act of vandalism around 4:45 a.m. this morning (Oct. 29). Our staff responded immediately, as did the San Francisco Police Department. None of the historical objects on display were damaged. The museum will be closed today so we can start repairs, but we expect to …

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NEW YORK CITY: Catholic League To Protest New Exhibition Of Piss Christ

Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue responds with a bobblehead of President Obama in a bed of feces. UPDATE: I guess ole Bill didn’t like my comment over on YouTube. “Comments are disabled.” Heh.

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Chicago To Get “Walking” LGBT Museum

Looks wonderful. Details.

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WTC Museum Construction To Resume

After more than a year of delays, an agreement has finally been reached to resume the construction of the museum at the site of the former World Trade Center. The museum had been scheduled to open today. In negotiations over the weekend, aides to Bloomberg and Cuomo resolved long-standing disputes over which government agencies would pay for the costs of …

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Opening Tomorrow In New York City

Opening tomorrow at the Leslie+Lohman Museum of Gay & Lesbian Art: Queerness, as a sexual identity, is a modern phenomenon, developed in the early part of the 20th century. It is also something that each queer develops into at their own time and pace. As a history museum, we are interested in what comes before the modern moment. Thus, the …

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Smithsonian AIDS Quilt Exhibit

Panels from the NAMES Project will be on display as part of this summer’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival on Washington DC’s National Mall. The exhibit runs June 27th to July 1st and July 1st thru July 4th. When last measured, the AIDS Quilt weighed 54 tons in its entirety. It’s the largest piece of community folk art in the world. Bring …

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Keith Haring At The Brooklyn Museum

Opening tomorrow at the Brooklyn Museum: Keith Haring: 1978–1982 is the first large-scale exhibition to explore the early career of one of the best-known American artists of the twentieth century. Tracing the development of Haring’s extraordinary visual vocabulary, the exhibition includes 155 works on paper, numerous experimental videos, and over 150 archival objects, including rarely seen sketchbooks, journals, exhibition flyers, …

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MUSEUM SHOW: 30 Years Of Art & AIDS

Embiggen the above image for details or go here. Via press release: Starting on November 29, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art will generously donate its gallery, for a third year, to host, “Art & AIDS: 30 Years,” an exhibition featuring 50 artists living with HIV/AIDS. Over 150 works of art, utilizing diverse media, will be on display …

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PhoboQuotable – Bill Donohue

“The fact is that the artist who made the vile video died of self-inflicted wounds: he died of AIDS. The homosexual, David Wojnarowicz, hated the Catholic Church (had he lived by its teachings, he would not have self-destructed). He once referred to Cardinal John O’Connor as a ‘fat cannibal,’ and labeled the Catholic Church a ‘house of walking swastikas.’ Sounds …

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The Colors Of Guggenheim

In an odd bit of marketing, NYC’s Guggenheim Museum is launching its own line of “premium” paints. For more than 50 years the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York has selected the perfect wall colors to complement the celebrated collection of modern art showcased in its Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home on Fifth Avenue. Now through an exclusive licensing arrangement …

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