A location I dreamed of when wandering through The Village. On Christopher Street, at the time the mecca of gay New York. He stayed temporarily in an apartment in the West Village. A generous artist in residence program made that possible. He said he was allowed to work in New York for a year on his next project. Despite this, many guests gathered as groupies around the sofa he had settled on with his then-boyfriend. In the late 1980s, at a party hosted by a friend, I met the British artist Isaac Julien in New York. PORTRAIT OF A FRIENDSHIP 5: LANGSTON HUGHES AND GILBERT PRICE Rob Perrée tries to answer the questions the friendship evokes. This article is about the friendship between the poet Langston Hughes and the opera singer Gilbert Price. In every article The Harlem Renaissance is the context of the story. This is the 5th article in a series of articles on the friendship between ‘two’ African American artists, a “friendship beyond understanding”.
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