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LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History at Swann Galleries August 19 NEW YORK, New York Subject Line Please provide verification code Email is invalid Tom of Finland, Home – Secured, colored pencil on paper, 1982. Estimate $60,000 to $90,000. New York— Swann Galleries’s third annual auction dedicated to the art, material culture, and history of the LGBTQ+ community will be held on Thursday, August 19, bringing to market both familiar artists as well as fresh, unusual and infrequently seen material. Among the art highlights are several original works by Tom of Finland, includ...

8 new & classic international movies you can watch on Showmax this April Shares Showmax boasts of a wide array of movies and TV shows that you can stream on demand on the platform. These include local and international TV series and movies. Some of them are produced in-house, some picked up for distribution at prestigious film festivals and some licensed from the top independent production companies. For all the latest and classic international movie lovers, Showmax has some new and exciting ones that you can watch on the platform. From 1. Doctor Sleep Doctor The Shining, as a now-adult, alc...

Angela Fraleigh. Photo by Wes Heiss, courtesy of the artist. Angela Fraleigh brings the work of the Old Masters into the 21st century with gorgeously rendered figures that seemed plucked from classical Western art history, which she paints against colorful abstract backgrounds rife with references to design traditions. For “Fluttering Still,” her first New York solo show in over a decade, which is on view at Hirschl & Adler Modern, Fraleigh has overlaid elements pulled from turn-of-the-century illustrations by pioneering female designers Ethel Reed and Gerda Wegener atop images of women...

Netflix/IFC Films The transgender community has gone through a history of being underrepresented on-screen until the past several years. Today, there’s a variety of trans stories that add to a catalog of movies that have evidently improved over time. With the success of television shows like Pose, that shows unique and exciting stories of trans people, and Euphoria, that includes a coming-of-age story featuring a transgender character, there is growth in positive and accurate representation. "I think for a very long time, the ways in which trans people have been represented on-screen hav...