Please, Come In… is a critical intervention of conventional museum period rooms. This exhibition features four environments--discotheques, dive bars, living rooms, and bathrooms--that blend and flow fluidly into one another. These spaces have been, and remain, havens for safety, kinship, dreaming, and loving. They evoke feelings of intimacy, interiority, and playfulness. From shag carpet and false eyelashes to fans and photographic slides, this exhibition brings together disparate objects and artworks that document and reference queer methods of assigning meaning vital to these spaces. Please, Come In… highlights the significance of these spaces and the innovators whose creative practices transformed how they are engaged and understood. 

Artists and creators included in the exhibition:
David Bandy’s slide collection
Nayland Blake
Paul Cadmus
Nell Campbell
Willie Cole
Howard Finster
Les Gundel
Channing Hansen
Lyle Ashton Harris
Peter Hujar
Robert Lazzarini
Peter Meller
Keith Puccinelli
Mel Ramos
Do-Ho Suh
Marc Swanson
Andy Warhol
Performers at Finocchio’s
Club in San Francisco