Thesiss

For a long time, the art market has been monopolized by a handful of players who possessed most of the wealth generated by the market. Today, as we continue to navigate a global health crisis—the coronavirus pandemic—the art market is undergoing major disruption: priorities are …

After reports in 1950 about homosexuals infiltrating government, Senator Kenneth Wherry responded, “You can't hardly separate homosexuals from subversives.” Inspired by such conflations of sexual and national subversions, I locate one source for the queer threat to the “American…