☞ REMEMBER: Gay New York & The Arts

Saturday, February 11th,  10:00 AM–4:00 PM, GAY NEW YORK AND THE ARTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY at the Museum of the City of New York,1220 Fifth Avenue at East 103rd Street.

This day-long symposium will 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. Public figures such as Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Leonard Bernstein, Andy Warhol, Gertrude Stein, and E.M Forster among others will be discussed. » RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

SPEAKERS ARE:

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 America'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

RESERVATIONS AND PREPAYMENT REQUIRED: $25 Museum members, seniors, and students; $35 non-members. Optional box lunch additional $15. To reserve (optional) lunch for the day, please order by: Friday, February 3.  RSVP online: LINK

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