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Luke Gilford’s Tender Photographs of Gay Rodeos

The Los Angeles-based photographer offers an updated version of the mythologized American cowboy, calling rodeos “the traditional drag of America.” | Elaine Velie

“I think there is something inherently camp about Western culture that I think pop music loves to play with, but I find that it often is very hollow,” Gilford said. “This is a way of life that exists beyond image or beyond the frame. That’s what I’m trying to touch on here: There’s real truth here and these are real lives, these are real people out there in rural America living as queer cowboys and ranching. These are brutal landscapes and brutal places sometimes.”

LOOKING AHEAD

Mary Sibande, “The Domba Dance” (2019) (image courtesy the Museum of Arts and Design)

Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art
Museum of Arts and Design through August 14

A contemporary survey of avant-garde costuming details its continued political relevance. Designs by 35 living artists show how the art form challenges normative conceptions of race, class, and gender all over the world.

Portia Munson: Bound Angel
P·P·O·W Gallery through August 19

Bound Angel is a delightful smorgasbord of high-femme ephemera. Installations, sculptures, and drawings explore the artist’s preoccupation with kink, introversion, nihilism, and romance. 

Azikiwe Mohammed: Forever Is Twice As Long From The Ground
Anna Zorina Gallery through August 19

For Azikiwe Mohammed, the last two years have proven the limits of working for change from within the system. In his immersive new exhibition, the mixed-media artist carves out space for people of color to exist autonomously.

ARTIST SPOTLIGHTS

Suzanne Lacy Continues the Conversation

Lacy’s work is more about making connections than providing content and it is still realized in the act of bringing people together, physically. | Nancy Princenthal 

Norman Bluhm’s Second Act

It is time that the art world recognize what Bluhm went on to do during the last three decades of his life, when he was deep into his own territory. | John Yau

The Quietly Gripping Art of Peter Hujar

Four captivating examples of the artist’s photographs, taken between 1973 and 1984, will be auctioned in August as part of Swann’s fourth annual LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture, and History sale. | Jasmine Liu

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CLOSING SOON

Installation view, The Tale Their Terror Tells (photo by Charles Benton, courtesy Lyles & King)

The Tale Their Terror Tells
Lyles & King through August 12

Honor Titus: Spotlight
FLAG Art Foundation through August 12

A Few Small Nips
Mrs. through August 12

Steven Anthony Johnson II: Getting Blood from Stone
International Studio & Curatorial Program through August 12

Stephanie Dinkins, Suzanne Lacy, Christine Sun Kim
Queens Museum through August 14

ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS

Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic
Newark Museum of Art through August 21

BLACK VENUS
Fotografiska through August 21

Heeseop Yoon: Agglomeration
Korea Society August 25 

Water Scarcity: Perpetual Thirst
Wave Hill Public Garden & Sculptural Center through August 28

Has No Smell
CUE Art Foundation through September 2 

Jamel Shabazz: Eyes on the Street
Bronx Museum of the Arts through September 4

Title IX: Activism On and Off the Field
New-York Historical Society through September 4 

Vasily Kandinsky: Around the Circle
Guggenheim Museum through September 5

Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton
Morgan Library & Museum through September 11

Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love
New York Botanical Garden through September 11

Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe
National Museum of the American Indian through September 11

Raphael Montañez Ortiz: A Contextual Retrospective
El Museo del Barrio through September 11