LET’S DO HIDE & SEEK ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 2011
Homoerotic Art Exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery followed by Lunch
More accurately, let’s go see the exhibit “Hide & Seek, Difference and Desire in American Portraiture” at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery located at Eighth and F Streets, NW, DC, above the Gallery Place-Chinatown Metro Station (red, yellow and green lines).
As explained in the exhibit’s catalog:
“Hide & Seek, Difference and Desire in American Portraiture,” traces the defining presence of same-sex desire in American portraiture through a seductive selection of more than 140 full-color illustrations, drawings, and portraits from leading American artists. Arcing from the turn of the twentieth century, through the emergence of the modern gay liberation movement in 1969, the tragedies of the AIDS epidemic, and to the present, Hide/Seek openly considers what has long been suppressed or tacitly ignored, even by the most progressive sectors of our society: The influence of gay and lesbian artists in creating American modernism.
We’ll meet at the front entrance of the National Portrait Gallery at 11:30 am and have ample time to casually tour the exhibit, located on the 2nd floor (or to see anything else in this recently renovated gallery).
We will meet again at the entrance at 1:00 pm before we make our way to nearby Eat First Chinese Restaurant, 609 H Street, NW, for lunch at 1:15 pm. Lunch will be ordered off the menu.
For more information on the exhibit, point your browser to:
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/hideseek/index.html
Please RSVP to straight-eights-president@comcast.net if you will be joining us for lunch, so we many give an accurate count to the restaurant.
