Queer Art

Exhibition ephemera, printed matter, and documents from exhibitions and projects engaging with queer identity, history, and cultural production.

  • Original 1978 Kathy Acker The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec paperback, TVRT Press and Printed Matter, New York. Front cover with black-and-white photographic image of two pairs of legs, one in stockings raised in the air, the other bare and low. Title in lowercase serif type: all she wants is love... Publisher imprints PM and TVRT Press at foot with ISBN 0-931106-21-4. Original price $4.50 at top left. Covers with age toning and surface wear. Reverse of 1978 Kathy Acker The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec, TVRT Press and Printed Matter. Back cover with black-and-white photographic image of intertwined bare limbs and hands. Title and author credit in white serif type at lower centre: The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec / By Henri Toulouse Lautrec. Age toning and surface scuffing to covers.

    Kathy Acker — The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec (1978)

    Kathy Acker — The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec (1978)

  • Original 1991 Kathy Acker Hannibal Lecter, My Father paperback, Semiotext(e) Native Agents Series, New York. Front cover in vivid pink with repeating text pattern in lighter pink forming the background, overlaid with bold black title lettering and author name. Printed wrappers in good condition with minor shelf wear. Reverse of 1991 Kathy Acker Hannibal Lecter, My Father paperback, Semiotext(e) Native Agents Series. Back cover in magenta-pink showing a halftone portrait photograph of Acker and the text: This writing is all fake (copied from other writing) so you should go away and not read any of it. ISBN and series imprint at foot.

    Kathy Acker — Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)

    Kathy Acker — Hannibal Lecter, My Father (1991)

  • Original 2014 GAY exhibition announcement card, Bronx Council on the Arts and Longwood Arts Project, New York, featuring a lush green woodland stream and fallen tree with large thin white lowercase typography spelling 'gay' across the full-colour landscape image. Reverse of original GAY exhibition card issued by the Bronx Council on the Arts / Longwood Arts Project, New York, 2014. Black text on white background lists exhibition dates, participating artists including Rafael Melendez, public programs, venue information, and exhibition advisory notice.**GAY: The Exhibition / The Bronx Museum, New York / 2014

    GAY — Bronx Council on the Arts / Longwood Arts Project, New York, 2014

    GAY — Bronx Council on the Arts / Longwood Arts Project, New York, 2014