Stephen Lapthisophon Gets Meadow Museum’s Moss/Chumly award for 2012
The Meadows Museum has announced that Stephen Lapthisophon is the recipient of the 2012 Moss/Chumley Artist Award. The award is given annually to an outstanding North Texas artist who has exhibited professionally for at least ten years and has a proven track record as a community advocate for the visual arts. Lapthisophon received the award [...]
Similar but Different #29: The Rainbow Connection
Well my issue of The New Yorker Magazine came today and on the cover was my inspiration for Similar but Different #29: The Rainbow Connection. Newsweek went so far as to say Obama is “The First Gay President”. In 2011 same-sex marriage became legal in New York and they lit up Niagara Falls to celebrate [...]
Queer State(s) at the UT Visual Art Center: Out of Nowhere
My friend Rebecca watches ”RuPaul’s Drag U” with her six-year-old daughter, who’s a big fan. The six-year-old, her mother believes, doesn’t understand that Jujubee, Raven and the other drag queens are not biological women. The little girl watches for more or less the same reason her mom does — for the kitschy glamor (although the kiddo [...]