Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Christina Schlesinger’s ‘Tomboys’ honors a milestone in modern lesbian art
June 12, 2019There are probably but a handful of galleries in the world where such art could be shown even today.
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‘Ready Steady Yeti Go’: Faulty maps through the fraught landscape of race
June 11, 2019"Contrary to what they'd have us believe, authority figures don't know everything. And don't necessarily have our best interests at heart.”
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Comprehensive retrospective of African-American artist Charles White at LACMA
June 6, 2019White said in 1940, "Paint is the only weapon I have with which to fight what I resent."
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Breaking ground for gay rights in the Communist press
June 4, 2019Other than left-sectarian grouplets that still believed homosexuality was bourgeois decadence, the only outlier in the '80s was the CPUSA.
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‘March and Variations’: Stefan Wolpe’s revolutionary music for two pianos
May 9, 2019This recent release is part of a project dedicated to Wolpe’s music on Bridge Records. It’s the company’s catalog number 9516. It features three major works for four hands, two pianos. The duo, called Quattro Mani...
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‘Daniel’s Husband’: A persuasive polemic for marriage in Southern California premiere
May 7, 2019In Daniel’s Husband we confront another hot-button issue that while it centers a same-gender couple, could equally apply to anyone.
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‘Dr. Nympho vs. the Sex Zombies,’ mashup of genres, amuses in L.A.
May 2, 2019I am not especially a zombie fan, but Dr. Nympho came so highly vouched for that I did not want to miss it.
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‘In the Penal Colony’: A Philip Glass opera based on Franz Kafka
April 30, 2019
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