Sentences with phrase «drag queen portraits»

Guise & Dolls focused on several prominent bodies of work from each artist's oeuvre: Warhol's «Ladies and Gentlemen» series (1975) of drag queen portraits, Christopher Makos's «Altered Images» series of Warhol in drag, Mapplethorpe's photographs of lifelong friend and longtime muse Patti Smith that range from masculine to feminine and Mapplethorpe's photographic series and book Lady: Lisa Lyon (1983) of the female bodybuilding champion in numerous gender - bending guises.

Warhol's 1975 «Ladies and Gentlemen» series of drag queen portraits will feature, along with Mapplethorpe's 1938 photographic series and book «Lady: Lisa Lyon», which records the female bodybuilding title holder in a number of «gender - bending» costumes.

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The images depict poetry readings; riots in Tompkins Square Park; drag queens at Wigstock; and portraits of filmmaker Chen Kaige, composer Tan Dun and fellow artist Xu Bing.

For example, an entire exhibition - within - the - exhibition, «Dios es marica» (God Is Queer), organized by Peruvian curator Miguel A. López and including self - portraits by Mexico's Nahum Zenil and Franco - era Spanish drag artist José Pérez Ocaña, among others, occupies a central position in the biennial's trajectory, as do the samplings of comparable work by São Paulo — based artist Hudinilson Jr. and Peruvian philosopher and drag queen Giuseppe Campuzano, whose ambitious Línea de vida / Museo Travesti del Perú (Life's Timeline / Transvestite Museum of Peru), 2009 — 14, a fictional museum, is one of many things in the biennial «that don't exist» — yet.

Patterson's «day - to - day visual history of the area» is told through «unpretentious portraits of myriad and diverse faces: tenement kids and homeless people, poets and politicians, drug dealers and drag queens, rabbis and santeros, beat cops, graffiti taggres, hookers, junkies, punks, anarchists, mystics and crackpots.»