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&#;Untitled&#; (from the series &#;In the Vale of Cashmere&#;), All photographs by Thomas Roma.
Despite having had exhibitions at both the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography and being the founding Director of Columbia University&#;s photography program, Thomas Roma has never had a solo exhibition in a gallery in New York. That will change tonight, with the opening of Steven Kasher Gallery&#;s In the Vale of Cashmere, a show of black-and-white pictures taken in an area of Prospect Park called the Vale of Cashmere between and The area of the park is secluded, most easily accessible through a hole in a fence, and it&#;s known in Brooklyn as a cruising ground for gay men.
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Built as a playground for community children in the late 19th century, the Vale has been neglected, and is overgrown with foliage and the kind of massive, mutant weeds that can only flourish from urban soil. Although a team is raising wealth to renovate the Vale, it has survived much of the constant cycle of renewal in New York unsca
I have observed that Dolores Park is segmented into several distinct and (sub) culturally consistent sections.
A. Hipster Valley
The Northeast corner of the Park (Dolores and 17th) is the realm of the Hipster. I suspect this is because while they can manage the amble from Valencia to Dolores they are too hung-over to make it up the hill.
Do bring: Bike, Enormous Sunglasses, Skinny jeans that show your butt crack when you sit down, Wear ebony and more black something army-looking works too, Ipods, beer and small speakers are encouraged.
Tips: Rest directly on grass + look bored.
Suggested canine companion: Chihuahuas, mixed breed rescues, and friendly beer drinking pit bulls in bandanas
Do bring: Spandex, knee pads and some sort of ball to chase around.
Tips: be excessively perky and organized.
Suggested Canine Companion: Golden retriever
C. Latin American Club
The locals. Watching the scene and laughing.
Do Bring: Beer, your homies, your dog
D. The bath
In Pictures: The Homosexual Cruising Sites of Soviet Moscow
It always struck me as odd when I was living in Moscow that, in a city of 12 million people, I had so many occasions to be alone – in metro underpasses late at evening, in snow-covered courtyards, in the endless maze of backstreets and alleyways. It never occurred to me that these moments alone in the Russian capital were missed opportunities for sexual encounters but, after seeing ‘Moscow: Gay Cruising Sites of the Soviet Capital, s–s’, the novel show from Russian-American creator Yevgeniy Fiks, I comprehend what a failure of imagination I had.
Currently on display at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, Fiks’s show is comprised of photographs, taken in , of Soviet-era same-sex attracted cruising sites (pleshkas, as they’re called in Russian). Fiks, who is Jewish, describes the photos as a ‘kaddish’ for older generations of ‘Soviet gays’, but the tone of the show is more irreverent that funerial. The artist takes unmistakable delight in how queer Muscovites transformed prominent Soviet monuments into cruising spots, appropriating t