Hiding in plain sight: Queer unearths the NGV works that should have shocked the old guard
Among more than 400 works on show in this groundbreaking exhibition are a few that slipped in under the conservatives’ noses.
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Among more than 400 works on show in this groundbreaking exhibition are a few that slipped in under the conservatives’ noses.
As a program administrator at Denver Public Art, Brendan Picker juggles funds, fabrication and artists’ visions to realize major public-art projects, managing all the necessary moves leading to an eventual unveiling. But in his spare time, Picker also curates the Storeroom, a walk-by installation gallery in an East 17th Avenue storefront window, where he gives local artists, perhaps lesser-known than those creating major public art with big-city dollars, free rein to use the space as they please. Given some free rein of his own, Picker helped organize the exhibition Queer City of the Plai...