From Angel Ortiz’s classic works celebrating New York City to Sarah Sze s conceptual, large-scale installations taking over the Guggenheim through fall.
Performances Friday and Saturday begin at 7 p.m. at the MHS Auditorium. Sunday is 2 p.m. Tickets will be sold at the door – $5 for students and children, $10 for adults, and $8 for seniors.
IF DRAKE CARR wants to see something sexy, he’ll make it himself. It began in the first grade with tracing superheroes in full regalia, but soon the clothes came off. “When my drawings started to look like something I could recognize,” he says, “my whole body would shake with fear and ecstasy.” Each nude sketch met the same end, ripped up and flushed down the toilet. A prayer followed its descent.At Happyfun Hideaway, the Bushwick bar Carr has tended for the past five years, he has a show on view that also features works by friend and fellow bartender Rose Mori. “Manifestations” displays Carr’s
Among his most popular publications emerge a widely-known apocalyptic science fiction hit (
Dhalgren), a collection of essays on the craft of writing, (
About Writing) and another on the queer sex-positive history and gentrification of midcentury gay male culture populating the porn theaters of 42nd Street and 8th Avenue (
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue). He has also penned a four-part queer fantasy series (
Return to Neveryon) and a revealingly heartfelt memoir (
The Motion of Light in Water).
Vastly underrated and underappreciated, Delany s latest creation is a racy, pungent illustrated novella of explicit gay erotica inspired by and dedicated to childhood friend Kenroy Thorsten who started it all on the first night of summer camp in the boys bunk-five tent in 1952.