Pride Month with the Met Museum: Martin Wong
June 22, 2022 | 12PM
We’re connecting the work of LGBTQ artists in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art with the physical sites where they lived and worked this month in a five-part special Pride 2022 collaboration! Every week, we’ll join in conversation with our colleagues at the Met to celebrate the work and legacy of an artist who’s featured on our website, www.nyclgbtsites.org.
Watch along on Instagram: @nyclgbtsites and @metmuseum.
Weds 6/22 at 12PM *LIVE*
Martin Wong, as discussed through his former Ridge Street residence as well as the Lower East Side handball court that is captured in his work within the Met Museum’s collection, “Attorney Street (Handball Court with Autobiographical Poem by Piñero)” (1982–84).
Learn more about the artist and work before the live talk: Martin Wong Residence & Studio.
Mark your calendar for the full schedule of talks.
Weds 6/1 at 11AM *LIVE*
Keith Haring, as discussed through his East Harlem mural, “Crack is Wack” and his 1983 “Untitled,” not normally on view!
Fri 6/10 at 12:30PM *LIVE*
Peter Hujar and David Wojnarowicz, focusing on the artists’ residences and studios at 181-189 Second Avenue, and “David Wojnarowicz with a Snake,” by Peter Hujar (1981), not normally on view!
Weds 6/15 at 10AM
Debut of the Project and the Met in conversation about the work of pioneering female photographer Berenice Abbott, who resided in Greenwich Village and whose portraiture and cityscapes are in the museum’s Drawings and Photographs collection.
Weds 6/29 at 12PM *LIVE*
Richmond Barthé, whose sculptural work, “Green Pastures: The Walls of Jericho,” stands at Brooklyn’s Kingsborough Houses, along with smaller pieces in the Met Museum’s collection.
All of these virtual programs will be captioned for full accessibility and posted to Instagram subsequent to the live broadcast. We thank you in advance for your patience as we process and prepare these videos.