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Monkman inaugurates The Met’s annual Great Hall Commission with mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People).
Kent Monkman
December 20, 2019
The celebrated Cree artist arrives at The Met—along with his gender-bending, time-travelling, shape-shifting alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
Randall Griffey
December 17, 2019
In honor of WorldPride, the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, and Camp: Notes on Fashion, we explore how designers and cultural icons have used camp to question conventional ideas about taste, gender, race, and sexuality.
Karen Van Godtsenhoven
June 24, 2019
In honor of WorldPride NYC and Camp: Notes on Fashion, we explore the history of camp culture's trademark, the gesture known as "the camp pose."
Karen Van Godtsenhoven
May 21, 2019
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Gallery views of The Costume Institute's spring 2019 exhibition, Camp: Notes on Fashion, narrated by exhibition curator Andrew Bolton.
May 10, 2019
Senior Library Associate Patrick J. Raftery Jr. explores Thomas J. Watson Library's collection of books on LGBTQ+ art and artists.
Patrick J. Raftery Jr.
March 20, 2019
Associate Manager for Technical Services Melissa Raymond discusses books on kitsch in Thomas J. Watson Library.
Melissa Raymond
February 20, 2019
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.
Michael Cirigliano II
December 1, 2018
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.
Michael Cirigliano II
June 1, 2018
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.
Michael Cirigliano II
February 7, 2018