DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New York
Saturday, February 11, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Gay New York and the Arts of the 20^th Century

Explore the influence of gay New Yorkers on the city’s artistic life from the 1920s through the 1960s and the dense social and cultural networks that fostered and supported them in the worlds of music, literature, dance, and more. Among the notable figures that will be discussed are Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Leonard Bernstein, Andy Warhol, Gertrude Stein, and E.M. Forster.

SPEAKERS:
Donald Albrecht | Curator of Architecture and Design, Museum of the City of New York, curator of Cecil Beaton: The New York Years
George Chauncey | Professor of History, Yale University, author of Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
Lynn Garafola | Professor of Dance, Barnard College, author of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance
Nadine Hubbs | Associate Professor, Women's Studies and Music, University of Michigan, author of The Queer Composition of Amierca's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes | Associate Professor of American Culture and Romance Languages and Literatures and Director, Latina/o Studies Program, University of Michigan, author of Queer Ricans: Cultures and Sexualities in the Diaspora
Wendy Moffat | Professor of English, Dickinson College, author of A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster
Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar | Professor of History, University of Connecticut, editor, The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters
Jane Tippett | Doctoral Candidate in History of Art, University of Delaware, co-author of a forthcoming book on Sam Green
Hugo Vickers | Author of Cecil Beaton: A Biography

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Cecil Beaton: The New York Years, which is made possible by Aris, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, James G. Dinan and Elizabeth R. Miller, the Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family Foundation, and other generous donors.

This special program is being offered to DART subscribers at the MCNY member's price of $25 when you contact 917.492.3395 or programs@mcny.org (enter promotion code DART215). If you phone, just mention DART and your tickets will be held for you. Please do not reply to this email. For more information: 917.492.3395.

The Museum of the City of New York is located at Fifth Avenue and 103^rd Street.By bus: M1, M3, M4 or M106 to 104th Street, M2 to 101st Street.By subway: #6 Lexington Avenue train to 103rd Street, walk three blocks west. #2 or #3 train to Central Park North (110th Street), walk one block east to Fifth Avenue, then south to 104th Street.

Photograph by Cecil Beaton. Courtesy of the Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s.

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