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Wednesday, November 10 at 7:00 p.m. 14th Street Playhouse, 173 14th St., Atlanta 30309 Click Here For Directions, parking available in the Colony Square parking garage on 14th St vis-à-vis the 14th St Playhouse. Lecture followed by a book signing. This event is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. American Sign Language Interpreter provided. Richard Meyer will expand on his recent article in the November / December issue of ART PAPERS Magazine discussing the subtle and and not-so-subtle pressures that continue to afflict gay and lesbian artists in the aftermath of the culture wars over federal funding to the arts. Professor Meyer will focus on some recent instances in which the work of young artists was censored or attacked for its alleged "indecency". Following the talk, Professor Meyer will sign copies of Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth Century American Art, recently released in paperback by Beacon Press and for sale at the event. Richard Meyer is associate professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Southern California. His first book, Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth Century American Art (Oxford University Press, 2002), examines the suppression of work by homosexual artists from the 1930s to the 1990s, and won the Smithsonian Museum's 2003 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Art. His forthcoming book, Secret Histories of Art, discusses private, underground or otherwise restricted images produced in the United States and England during the mid-twentieth century. SPONSORS: 14th Street Playhouse, Outwrite Bookstore and Ria's Bluebird.  HOST COMMITTEE: Atlanta Pride Committee, Wesley Chenault and John J. Ryan, Emory University Office of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Life, Fay Gold Gallery, The Lowe Gallery, Leslee Shaw and Meredith Bell, Uri Vaknin/The Art of Real Estate. Art Papers is a non-profit organization publishing the award-winning ART PAPERS Magazine. ART PAPERS provides important exposure to emerging artists and writers from varying ethnic and disciplinary backgrounds across the U.S. ART PAPERS LIVE!! brings ART PAPERS Magazine's award-winning coverage off the page and into the Georgia community with artists or critics of national prominence. For More about upcoming special events and programs, please visit us at: www.artpapers.org Major funding for ART PAPERS is provided by the Fulton County Commission, Atlanta, Georgia, under the guidance of the Fulton County Arts Council, and by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. ART PAPERS is funded in part by the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, and the Georgia Council for the Arts through the appropriations for the Georgia General Assembly. The Council is a Partner Agency for the National Endowment for the Arts  Caption information for art images:
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