Alice Austen, "The Darned Club," 1891, Original glass plate negative, 4 x 5 in, Collection of Historic Richmond Town.Image courtesy of Wrightwood 659
WHEN:
May 2 to July 26, 2025
WHERE:
Wrightwood 659
659 W. Wrightwood
Chicago, IL 60614
TICKETS:
$15+
For more information and tickets visit the Wrightwood 659 website.
Saturnino Herrán, "Nuestros dioses antiguos," 1916, Oil on canvas, 101 x 112 cm, Colección Andrés Blaisten, México.Image courtesy of Wrightwood 659
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...The exhibition features more than 300 paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and films, many presented for the first time within the context of global queer and colonial inquiry. These range from well-known masterpieces to unexpected works by little-known or anonymous artists. Drawn from over 100 museums and private collections around the world, the exhibition takes as its starting point the year 1869—when the term “homosexual” is first coined and proceeds through the subsequent seven decades, amplified by a selection of earlier art, as context..."
