#club culture
Sadie Barnette, “The New Eagle Creek Saloon,” 2022,
Organized in conjunction with The Studio Museum in Harlem, The New Eagle Creek Saloon presents Sadie Barnette’s fluorescent recreation of the San Francisco gay bar that her father, founder of the Compton chapter of the Black Panther Party, operated in the early 1990s.
On select Saturdays, the architectural installation is activated by DJs invited by queer scholar and artist madison moore as part of The Kitchen’s new nightlife and club culture residency; visitors are invited to dance, an homage to queer Black spaces past and present.
Courtesy of The Kitchen,
Photo by Adam Reich
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Kiki de Montparnasse by Man Ray
Farewell to brilliant Montreal-born photographer Marcus Leatherdale (18 September 1952 – 22 April 2022), who’s died aged 69. Arriving in New York in 1978, Leatherdale was initially the office manager, boyfriend and model for Robert Mapplethorpe before establishing his own identity as a photographer with vivid black-and-white portraits of 1980s NYC art and club culture scene-makers like Andy Warhol, Divine, Cookie Mueller, Leigh Bowery, Dianne Brill and a bratty unknown young urchin calling herself Madonna. Pictured: the caption on the original post is wrong. This is not Kiki of Montparnasse by Man Ray! It’s the Marcus Leatherdale photo entitled Larissa, Issey Miyake, New York City, 1983. (This image was also used as the cover of Leatherdale’s book Out of The Shadows (1980 - 92). Read more here.
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