Coney Island Babies: Visual Artists from the Brooklyn Drag Scene reviewed by Vice “Who Says Drag Can’t Be Fine Art?” by Emily Colucci, for Vice Image: Still from performance by Hystée Lauder, video by Cameron Cole, courtesy of Chris Bogia
Taking its title from a song by Lou Reed dedicated to his trans lover Rachel, Coney Island Babies, curated by Chris Bogia and Montgomery Smith for Fire Island Artist Residency, brings together a group of visual artists working in and around Brooklyn’s flourishing young avant-garde drag scene. The artists here all do double duty as drag queens, musicians or designers, and [...]
The Bureau is a proud sponsor of Nasty Drew and That Harder Boy: Case of the Peepshow Phantom!, which launches this Friday, September 9th! Other performances take place on 9/23, 10/7, and 10/21 (10 pm showtime) at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. Purchase Tickets here We thoroughly enjoyed the last show put on [...]
The Bureau will be closed for Labor Day Weekend Friday, September 2 Saturday, September 3 Sunday, September 4 Following Labor Day Weekend, the Bureau’s new hours will be Tuesday through Sunday, 1 to 7 PM
The Bureau’s current exhibition, Persons of Interest, received a very positive review in Holland Cotter’s “Art of the AIDS Years: What Took Museums So Long?” in The New York Times, July 29, 2016. Click here to read the article. A version of this review appears in print on July 29, 2016, on page C21 [...]
