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In the decades preceding the Stonewall riotsin the wake of the 1948 publication of Alfred Kinseys controversial report on male sexuality and in the midst of a cold war culture of suspicion and paranoiadiscussions of homosexuality within the New York art world necessarily circulated via gossip and rumor. Between You and Me explores this informal, everyday talk and how it shaped artists lives, their work, and its reception. Revealing the trivial and unserious aspects of the postwar art scene as key to understanding queer subjectivity, Gavin Butt argues for a richer, more expansive concept of historical evidence, one that supplements the verifiable facts of traditional historical narrative with the gossipy fictions of sexual curiosity. Read more