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June 22-September 15. Wednesday-Friday: 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday and
Sunday: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. A new exhibition at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum
of Art features
27 major artists who have used portraiture to challenge, subvert, and
play with societal norms of gender and sexuality since the
1969 Stonewall Riots--an important turning point in the LGBTQ+ rights
movement. Leveraging the 'reality effect'--the prevalent belief that
photographs accurately depict reality--artists including
Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, Cindy
Sherman, and Andy Warhol respond to how gender identity and sexual
orientation were viewed historically and how they are lived today. The
over 50 works of art in Be Seen: Portrait Photography Since Stonewall
compel us to consider how we perform our identity through our clothing,
accessories, speech, and bodily expression, in an effort to be seen.
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