Jimmy DeSana

I grew up in Southern California, where every once in a while you’d hear news stories about private beaches that weren’t actually private.

The Queer photographer Jimmy DeSana worked in New York from 1973 until his premature death from AIDS-related illness in 1990.

The Queer photographer Jimmy DeSana worked in New York from 1973 until his premature death from AIDS-related illness in 1990.

Venue: Paris Internationale, Paris, France

Jimmy DeSana was, for over thirty years, at the cutting edge of photography. 

The start of the fall art season is arguably the biggest of the year. Nearly every gallery and museum opens a major exhibition and there is an energy that is unmistakable.

A total of 284 leading galleries participating.

In First Person Plural is the first group show to be presented in the SOLO/MULTI section of MACRO’s programme and aims to explore another facet of the exhibition as medium with an experimental approach.

Swann Galleries will present A Singular History of Photography: 100 Works from the Stephen White Collection in the spring Fine Photographs auction on Thursday, April 27.

Jimmy DeSana’s work remains transgressive, even by today’s standards.

Jimmy DeSana: Submission at the Brooklyn Museum highlights the work of a talented but lesser-known photographer, artist, and LGBTQ advocate.

Fair will exhibit works by Jimmy DeSana and Barbara Ess, largely forgotten artists who were contemporaries of Robert Mapplethorpe

Of the powerhouse exhibitions headed our way this season, “Murillo: From Heaven to Earth” at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas (Sept. 18-Jan. 29) heads my list for its title alone.

P·P·O·W announced the opening of an additional gallery in Tribeca, on the second floor of 390 Broadway, adjacent to its primary gallery. 

P·P·O·W announced representation of the Estate of Jimmy DeSana.