For the Brazilian-born artist, beauty is in the pulse point.
Handmade or photocopied, zines operate outside of traditional publishing networks—and counter the preciousness of the print.
The artist, who died in 2021, played a crucial role in establishing downtown Manhattan as both a scene and a style.
A long-awaited retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum celebrates the photographer’s work while avoiding the self-congratulatory drama of a rescue mission.
From photographs of same-sex weddings to HIV/AIDS caretakers, Stephen Vider’s new book shows how queer people redefined gender roles, domestic space, and the politics of intimacy in the twentieth century.
Reynaldo Rivera’s photographs of trans women, drag artists, and Latinx scenesters are a thrilling account of 1990s-era nightlife.
Eight months after New York’s lockdown, a writer returns to the city’s galleries and museums—and finds images of righteous fury and ecstatic communion.
With museums and galleries closed, the touch-screen world is the only one we have.
In the early 1980s, Tim Greathouse photographed David Wojnarowicz, Greer Lankton, and Jimmy DeSana—and captured New York’s downtown scene before the destruction of AIDS.
From Andy Warhol to Marlon Riggs, MoMA presents film as a radical expression of sexuality and activism.
Alvin Baltrop made an indelible record of gay life in New York before AIDS. But why is a queer, Black artist’s work only valuable after his death?
A series at BAM attempts to make a canon of cinema for a generation more interested in dismantling them.
Ugo Mulas captured the swinging 1960s art world defined by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg.
In the 1970s, Sunil Gupta photographed moments of desire and liberation in New York’s gay capital.
James Bidgood’s queer and candy-colored photographs were camp before camp was stylish.
The spring 2024 issue, “Counter Histories,” is produced in collaboration with Magnum Foundation and features photographers from around the world who reframe complex histories.