Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

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The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is an art museum in SoHo , Manhattan , New York City . It is considered the first museum in the world to specialize in art and artists from the LGBTQ scene. The museum is operated by the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation .

history

The couple J. Frederic ("Fritz") Lohman (* 1922; † 2009) and Charles W. Leslie (* 1933) had been collecting relevant art since the 1950s and in 1969 organized an exhibition for the first time in their own apartment. In 1987 they opened a commercial gallery , which they ran until the gay scene collapsed due to the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s. In 1987 they founded the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation , a foundation to which they brought their extensive art collection on LGBTQ issues and artists in order to be able to permanently preserve and display them. From 1987 to 1990, the tax authorities initially refused to recognize this foundation as a non-profit organization because it had the word “gay” in its name.

In 2006, after initially exhibiting elsewhere, the museum was able to move into part of the ground floor at 26 Wooster Street in south Manhattan.

2011 was the museum by the state New York recognized as a museum.

business

organization

In the museum, art by artists of different sexes from and on topics of the LGBTQ scene is collected and exhibited, both from its own collection and loans. The museum is managed by a board of directors and operated by full-time and voluntary staff. Volunteers mainly take care of the museum's educational offers, lectures, films and events. The museum also organizes a “Fellowship Program” for volunteers .

The museum offers membership in various forms. It is a member of the American Alliance of Museums .

The museum's main sources of funding are foundation income (74.9%), donations from private sources and from other foundations (17.7%), and membership fees (2.2%). The 2013 budget of the museum was US $ 1,094,414.

Collection and exhibitions

The collection comprises 24,000 works, 1,300 of which belong to the museum. The rest are on permanent loan . These are paintings , drawings , photographs , prints and sculptures , mostly from the 20th century. The oldest pieces in the collection date from the 17th century. The collection includes works including: Berenice Abbott , David Hockney , Ingo Swann , Catherine Opie , Andy Warhol , Tom of Finland , Delmas Howe , Jean Cocteau , David Wojnarowicz , Robert Mapplethorpe , George Platt Lynes , Horst , Duncan Grant , James Bidgood , Duane Michals , Charles Demuth , Don Bachardy , Attila Richard Lukacs , Jim French , Del LaGrace Volcano , Paul Thek , Peter Hujar , Arthur Tress . Due to the limited exhibition space, only some of the works can be shown. This happens in about four to six temporary exhibitions per year and other small exhibitions in the shop windows facing the street. In addition, guest exhibitions are held outside of the company's own premises. The content of the exhibitions is designed by guest curators . In order to ensure the quality of the exhibitions, the museum has issued guidelines for this and the concepts of the guest curators are first examined by a committee of the foundation. In 2013, with the exhibition Sascha Schneider , an exhibition curated in the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art was awarded internationally for the first time. It was shown in the Schwules Museum Berlin . In the summer of 2014, the exhibition Classical Nude: The Making of Queer History was shown in advance at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archive in West Hollywood .

Accompanying offer

The museum maintains a library with more than 1,600 volumes and an archive with more than 1,900 files on individual artists. Next, the museum offers time - and drawing classes, lectures, films and readings. It publishes the magazine The Archive , in which the exhibitions are discussed, essays on the exhibited artists appear, new acquisitions are presented and events are announced. Furthermore, an annual report on the work of the museum is presented (“Annual Report”).

Expansion plans

In the summer of 2015, plans were announced to expand the museum to a neighboring area on the ground floor of the building, which was then used as a sales room. That would roughly double the exhibition space.

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ So: NN: [ Imprint ]. In: The Archive 54 (Summer 2015), p. 2; but also: Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art , see above : 2014 Annual Report, p. 1. In the English language Wikipedia, any connection symbol is dispensed with: " Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art ".
  2. ↑ In contrast to German law, membership in a foundation is possible according to the common law applicable in New York State .
  3. ↑ The figures relate to 2013.
  4. ↑ According to: NN: [ Imprint ]. In: The Archive 54 (Summer 2015), p. 2, there were 22,000.
  5. ^ According to: NN: Leslie-Lohmann Collections . In: The Archive 53 (Spring 2015), p. 19, there were 1,452.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cotter: Gay Pride .
  2. ^ Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (eds.): 2014 Annual Report , p. 11.
  3. ↑ Kevin Clarke: The Art of Looking. The Life and Treasures of Collector Charles Leslie . Berlin 2015. ISBN 978-3-86787-763-3
  4. ↑ Weinstein: He Knows .
  5. ^ De Stefano: Artistic Outlaws .
  6. ^ Robinson: Future Events ; NN: [ Imprint ]. In: The Archive 54 (Summer 2015), p. 2.
  7. ^ De Stefano: Artistic Outlaws .
  8. ^ Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (eds.): 2014 Annual Report , p. 2.
  9. ^ Ellis: Arts and Education.
  10. ^ Sanchez: Leslie-Lohman Gallery .
  11. ^ Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (eds.): 2014 Annual Report , p. 7.
  12. ↑ Corporate Membership. In: leslielohman.org. Accessed April 28, 2019 .
  13. ^ Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (eds.): 2014 Annual Report , p. 11.
  14. ^ Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (eds.): 2014 Annual Report , p. 2.
  15. ^ Aletti: Boys and Girls ; Sanchez: Leslie-Lohman Gallery ; Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (Eds.): 2014 Annual Report , p. 2.
  16. ↑ Guidelines for proposing an exhibition to the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art. (No longer available online.) In: leslielohman.org. January 2013, archived from the original on July 26, 2014 ; accessed on June 14, 2020 (English).
  17. ^ NN: Classical Nude: The Making of Queer History . In: Homepage of ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives .
  18. ^ Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (eds.): 2014 Annual Report , p. 5.
  19. ^ Sanchez: Leslie-Lohman Gallery .
  20. ↑ NN: [ Imprint ]. In: The Archive 54 (Summer 2015), p. 2.
  21. ↑ Jonathan David Katz, Hunter O'Hanian: Expanding a Vision: A Chat About the Museum's Planned Expansion . In: The Archive: Journal of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art . No. 54 . New York 2015, p. 10 f . (American English, full text [PDF; 344 kB ; accessed on September 13, 2017]). Full text ( memento of the original from August 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leslielohman.org


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