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Celebrate Pride at The Met with this selection of articles and videos that tell stories of art and artists from the LGBTQIA+ community.

Camp: Notes on Fashion Gallery Views

Gallery views of The Costume Institute's spring 2019 exhibition, Camp: Notes on Fashion, narrated by exhibition curator Andrew Bolton.

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Queering the Catalogue: A Look at Queer, Gay, and Trans Art and Artists

Senior Library Associate Patrick J. Raftery Jr. explores Thomas J. Watson Library's collection of books on LGBTQ+ art and artists.

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All in Bad Taste

Associate Manager for Technical Services Melissa Raymond discusses books on kitsch in Thomas J. Watson Library.

Dancer Omari Mizrahi on Mark Bradford’s Painting "Duck Walk"

Dancer Omari Mizrahi discusses the history of voguing while reflecting on Mark Bradford's mixed-media work Duck Walk.

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This World AIDS Day, Reconnect Images of Protest with Their Context

To commemorate World AIDS Day 2018, explore a selection of protest posters created in the first decade of the AIDS crisis with an eye to their original context and their relevance to the current state of the epidemic.

Portraits of four queer artists: Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Jane Heap, and David Wojnarowicz

Celebrating Pride Month with The Met Collection

To commemorate Pride Month, Managing Editor Michael Cirigliano II takes a look at ten works from The Met collection by, or depicting, artists from the LGBT community.

Exploring the Love Letters of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy

Managing Editor Michael Cirigliano II discusses with Simon Callow and Alan Cumming the legacy of Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy's relationship, which has been immortalized through their frequent letters and David Hockney's double portrait.

James M. Saslow on Sensuality and Spirituality in Michelangelo's Poetry

Research Assistant Jeffrey Fraiman sits down with scholar James M. Saslow to discuss Michelangelo's practice as a poet, the meaning of his gift drawings, and the study of the artist's homoeroticism since his death in 1564.

Marsden Hartley and Wilfred Owen: Queer Voices of Memorial in Wartime

Managing Editor Michael Cirigliano II explores the ways in which two queer artists, Marsden Hartley and Wilfred Owen, used their respective mediums to memorialize the effects of World War I.

The Cosmopolitan Regionalist: Marsden Hartley's Maine with Randall Griffey

Publishing and Marketing Assistant Rachel High discusses the work of Marsden Hartley and his relationship to his native state with Marsden Hartley's Maine co-curator Randall Griffey.

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