Sentences with phrase «underground gay culture»
The multilingual performance clashes high art against queer slang, playing with language, music and double entendres particular to Latino and black underground gay culture.
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GAY GOTHAM: ART AND UNDERGROUND CULTURE Queer creativity in the 20th century is celebrated in this exhibition that includes familiar figures like Andy Warhol, Mae West, Leonard Bernstein and Robert Mapplethorpe.
These picture of gay men as virile, confident, and unashamed — equally radical for their near - illicit, underground distribution — originated an empowering queer iconography and liberating spirit that has marked popular culture, art, fashion, and human rights.
Parallel to the striking, somber Men canvases, materials in the exhibition are organized in strict chronological order so the viewer can appreciate the interrelations of underground and establishment; art, protest, and gay life; painting, sculpture, and film in a key year for Warhol; fine art and mainstream culture; and the lives and careers of the major players.
It helps that his work is provocative in all the right ways, drawing on the transgressive chic of his subject matter: London's underground gay nightlife, from the blackout, vinyl - lined sex clubs to rave culture.