Dance in the News: Mondrian was a Dancin’ Fool
by Andrew Price
via GOOD
Apparently Piet Mondrian, painter of rigid rectilinear geometries, was “in Harlem as frequently as he could possibly be, dancing with whoever could keep up with him.”
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LGBTQ* Artist You Should Know
Reginald Marsh
-Illustrations/art/etchings part of the series “Chop Suey Dancers”
-Late 1920s
-Depicted couples of the same sex dancing together in New York nightspots
-Many characters intentionally created to be ambiguous (Marsh wanted audience to ask if dancers were assumed gender, in drag, or androgynous)
