Deborah Bright was a panel respondent (15 April 2000) and gave a gallery tour (16 March 2000) at the RISD Museum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition “Image and enterprise: the photographs of Adolphe Braun.”
Gisèle Freund, 91, died in Paris on 31 March 2000. Freund was one of Europe’s most prominent photographers and among her best-known images are portraits of lesbian literati like Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Yourcenar,. Sylvia Beach, and Adrienne Monnier (her longtime companion).
Sadao Hasegawa, 54, possibly the best known Japanese gay male artist, committed suicide on 20 November 1999. The 1990 Gay Male Press/Editions Aubrey Walters collection of his work Sadao Hasegawa by Sadao Hasegawa is currently out of print. An article on Hasegawa by Frits Staal appeared in the Bay Area reporter, March 30, 2000 (see bibliography).
Horst P. Horst, 93, photographer, died at his home in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, on 18 November 1999. See references to his relationship with George Hoyningen-Huene (1900-1968) in “Posing and performance” by Thomas Waugh in The passionate camera, edited by Deborah Bright (New York: Routledge, 1998).
The 28th annual conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) was held in Pittsburgh from 16-22 March 2000, with Ray Anne Lockard as one of the principal local organizers. The Gay and Lesbian Interests Round Table sponsored a session organized by Ray Anne and moderated by Ted Goodman (Avery Index, Columbia University) and Clayton Kirking (Parsons School of Design). The session was entitled “Collecting time: examining Andy Warhol’s time capsules” and featured presentations by Thomas Sokolowski (Director of the Andy Warhol Museum), John Smith (archivist at the Warhol), and Kirk Savage (professor of art history, University of Pittsburgh). An unopened time capsule was brought to the session and opened by the Warhol Museum staff members and selected audience members.
Homodok (gay center and archive in Amsterdam), the Lesbisch Archief Amsterdam, and the Anna Blamanhuis (Leeuwarden) have joined forces. More info at http://www.homodok.nl/hdkeng2.htm (English version)