Browsing Tag LGBTQ+

August 23, 2020

Swann Sets New Auction Record for Tom of Finland The second iteration of Swann Galleries’ LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History sale on Thursday, August 13, 2020, was a…

July 17, 2019

    On the challenges of getting the media to tell LGBTQ+ stories and the role of art in changing the narrative…   On ensuring that LGBTQ+ history does not…

June 27, 2019

    The Pride Sale on Thursday, June 20 offered a curated selection of LGBTQ+ art, photography, literature, autographs and ephemera from the past 200 years, with many…

June 17, 2019

The Gay Day Archive   Today, at least a million spectators line the Pride parade route along Fifth Avenue each year. But in its earliest days, the celebration…

June 12, 2019

“Every woman who wants to be beautiful should be beautiful”   Among the many items up for auction in our June 20…

May 29, 2019

The Pride Sale An Exploration & Celebration of the Art, Influence & History of the LGBTQ+ Community We invited Eric Marcus, the founder and host of the Making Gay History…

April 15, 2014

New discoveries are often made during our auction previews. Sometimes a guest will identify a place depicted in a work of art, or recognize a name in an inscription. One wonderful…

March 28, 2014

Among the highlights of our April 17, 2014 auction of Vernacular Photography is a small archive of photographs and ephemera relating to cross-dressing and gay rights in New York…