0.12. Florine Stettheimer's Gay Salon (An Interview with Barbara Bloemink)

History is Gay

Leigh Pfeffer

History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 536 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

For this bonus episode, we're bringing you an interview with esteemed art historian, art director, and curator Barbara Bloemink about her recently published comprehensive biography of turn-of-the-century Modernist painter Florine Stettheimer. Stettheimer, a cousin of Natalie Clifford Barney's, painted the vibrant world of New York between the two world wars and welcomed gay, lesbian, and bisexual friends and family into her Manhattan salon at a time when it was dangerous and illegal to be out in New York. Listen on to hear Bloemink talk about Stettheimer's painting style, her relationships with the queer art elite of New York, and the ways the contemporary art world has shunned away from diving deeply into subversive and feminist painters.

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0:00.0	Hello, guys, gals, and non-binary pals.
0:03.2	Lee here for a little bit of an intro.
0:05.6	Just wanted to let you know we don't have a regular episode for you this month just because things got a little bit busy after my Z-night retreat vacation.
0:14.6	But we are bringing you a bonus episode in the form of an interview I did last month with Barbara Blomink about a wonderful
0:22.5	modernist painter named Florian Stethheimer, which you will learn all about in this interview.
0:28.0	I hope that you enjoy it.
0:29.4	I also just wanted to come in to let you know that we will be doing our first live watch
0:34.4	and Q&A session of the year for our patrons.
0:38.8	We have a poll up on the Patreon right now about what we are going to watch.
0:43.7	The date is kind of TBD at the moment.
0:45.8	It's going to happen mid-June.
0:47.5	I put June 18th on the Patreon, but I might have to change it to the 19th because that
0:51.7	might be the only weekend day I can get off from work.
0:54.1	But I am excited to watch something with y 19th because that might be the only weekend day I can get off from work.
1:03.8	But I am excited to watch something with y'all and then all hang out and discuss it and see what we thought and see what we thought compared to episodes we've done on that topic.
1:12.8	The options we have on the Patreon poll are Bessie, Vita and Virginia, an episode or two of Our Flag Means Death, since we love to talk about queer pirates, and Frida.
1:15.0	So go on over to the Patreon if you are a patron supporter, and go vote for that, and we
1:21.6	will watch something together in the next month for Pride.
1:25.5	I hope that you enjoy this episode.
1:28.3	We've always been here every single year.
1:35.2	From ancient gays right up to today's see, his story is queer.
1:42.6	Some think it's a new way, but we've got something to say.
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