Jonathan D. Katz's 'About Face' Anthology Maps 50 Years of Queer Art Beyond Stonewall

Key facts

• About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art was published by Phaidon in February 2024
• Jonathan D. Katz is an art historian, educator, and writer who assembled the collection
• The book features more than 350 artworks by over 40 LGBTQ+ artists
• It spans 50 years of LGBTQ+ art and moves beyond framing the Stonewall Riots as the only starting point or as solely about gay rights
• Keith Haring's Untitled, 1989 is a collage of gouache, ink, and a Herb Ritts photograph on handmade paper from a private collection
• Del LaGrace Volcano's MOJ OF THE ANTARCTIC, OPEN ARMS, ANTARCTICA, 2005 is a Giclée print referencing Ellen Craft, a Black woman who posed as a White man with a disability to escape slavery
• Leonard Suryajaya's Deafening Silence, 2016 is an archival inkjet print exploring his Indonesian ancestry and queer immigrant life in Chicago
• Zanele Muholi's Phila I, Parktown, 2016 (silver gelatin print) and Phaphama, at Cassilhaus, North Carolina, 2016 (archival pigment print) are courtesy of the artist, Yancey Richardson, New York, and Stevenson Cape Town / Johannesburg