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Show and Share Queering the Library

The front cover of Queer Zines, showing a photocopied image of a naked person from behind, with the highlighted areas in pink and the shadows in blue.

Queer zines, edited by AA Bronson and Philip Aarons. New York: Printed Matter, 2008

For Queer and Now 2023, Tate's Library and Archive team are putting on a Show and Share displaying highlights from their vast collections

Queering the library and archive will explore narratives of LGBTIQ+ art history and ask what role does the museum play in the formation, collection, and promotion of hidden narratives of art history? How do libraries and archives make visible the invisible?

Instead of defining a canon of LGBTIQ+ artists, this show and share will instead explore a range of themes through a curated selection of zines, artists’ books, photobooks and other published material from Tate Library, presented alongside sketchbooks, letters, photographs and archival material from Tate Archive.

For listings and more information, see Queering the Library

This event is part of Queer and Now, a festival dedicated to the powerful role of LGBTQIA+ art and culture in the UK.

Tate Britain

Hyman Kreitman Reading Rooms

Millbank
London SW1P 4RG
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Date & Time

10 June 2023 at 11.00–15.00

Aimed at audiences 16 and upwards

Content guidance: Nudity and sexually explicit content may be included in the material selected