in: http://news.pinkpaper.com/
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Lesbian and Gay Art received accreditation from the State of New York recently.
Founded by art collectors Fritz Lohman and his partner of 48 years, Charles Leslie, in 1990, the museum opened in its own premises in 2011.
After Lohman’s death, Leslie contributed a gift of $8.8m in his memory, which along with other substantial donations, enabled the museum to open as “a safe haven for art which often excluded from mainstream exhibitions and textbooks and looked upon as taboo or less than important by historians and critics”, according the museum’s website.
The donations, which total more than $10m are thought to be the largest sum ever received by an LGBT arts organisation from private donors.
In 1969, Leslie and Lohman opened the first gay arts space in New York in their SoHo loft. They were pivotal in establishing SoHo, formerly a run-down industrial area, as first a buzzing hub for the arts and then a successful commercial district. The museum is located in the heart of the area. It houses a permanent collection of more than 3,500 works, from paintings and drawings to photography, sculpture and prints, and also hosts temporary exhibitions. Much of the collection is searchable via the museum’s online database.
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