"find one another in the dark,"
"The show is about giving the pen back to the writer, giving the paintbrush back to the artist, during this time of genocide,"
"And when there's been so much censorship, these are artists that might not have been able to do this anywhere else."
"Vuong has an eye for quotidian details that punch you in the stomach when stated plainly: the crumpled Dunkin' Donuts bag framed by Buddhist statues in his mother's nail salon, the hand grasping a doorway by a stickered whiteboard with five handwritten life goals."
Queer artists from Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and their diasporas exhibit across two Manhattan galleries and invite audiences to find one another in the dark. Exhibitions engage themes of love, sex, cults, and queercore aesthetics, including provocative, playful installations. The shows assert artistic autonomy amid censorship and genocide by restoring agency to writers and artists. The city calendar gestures to overlapping observances such as Lunar New Year, Ramadan, Ash Wednesday, Mardi Gras, and a lunar eclipse, creating a dense cultural moment. Leadership at the Department of Cultural Affairs requires transparency, predictable processes, follow-through, and governing as partnership.
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