Down on Orchard Street

Across from each other down on Orchard street, just off Canal, two innovative store fronts are heating things up the winter.

Invisible- Exports gallery is showing BOB MIZER: ARTIFACTS curated by Visual AIDS friend Billy Miller. It is a thoughtful show that places Mizer in the canon of important 20th century photographers, His crisp, mostly cheerful images of posed sculpted bodies speak on one level of beauty, and on another, the ways in which we are socialized to see, and be seen. It is an intimate show in which one can lose themselves in for days after.

Less than 2 months into their pop up shop, The Bureau of General Services, Queer Division unveiled their 2nd exhibition. Entitled "Electric Eclectic Beauties of the Glorious Nightlife, the show is comprised of wonderful point and shoot shots taken over the course of one night by 12 NYC queers including: Hari Nef – Reve – Trey LaTrash – Jordan Fox – Max Steele – Jake Dibeler – M Lamar – Dusty Childers – Ben Rosenberg – Stephen Boyer – Alberto Cortes – Krys Fox – Leo Gugu – Shane Shane. It is just the kind of show that makes The Bureau such an import place for NYC. Find out how you can support them here: BGSQD.

Image: by Bob Mizer