Artist and writer Harmony Hammond, a co-founder of the first women's cooperative gallery in New York, is coming to SoHo to mark a new collection of five decades of her writing. The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art at 26 Wooster Street hosts a free evening on Thursday, October 29, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., for the release of Still Dangerous! The Harmony Hammond Reader.

The book

Duke University Press published the collection this year. It gathers Hammond's essays, reviews, artist statements, letters and interviews, covering women and lesbian artists, feminist and queer abstraction, and censorship. Tirza True Latimer, a professor emerita at California College of the Arts, edited the book, and Julia Bryan-Wilson wrote the foreword.

At the museum, Hammond will talk with Latimer and with artist Steve Locke. Copies of the book will be on sale.

Who Harmony Hammond is

Hammond was born in 1944 and moved to New York in 1969. In 1972 she co-founded A.I.R. Gallery, the first women's cooperative gallery in New York, and in 1976 she co-founded Heresies magazine. She has lived in northern New Mexico since 1984, and taught at the University of Arizona from 1989 to 2006.

Latimer has her own history with the museum: she curated its 2020 exhibition Other Points of View.

Also at the museum that week

  • Wednesday, October 28, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.: Activating the Archive, a panel with filmmaker Michelle Handelman marking the launch of her collection in The Feminist Institute's digital archive, co-sponsored by the American LGBTQ+ Museum and Queer|Art.
  • On view through November 15: Soft Spaces, a two-person show of work by Heather Marie Scholl and Eva Wu.
  • On view through January 3, 2027: Shu Lea Cheang's LOVER LOVE and Hortensia Mi Kafchin's Through Different Eyes.

The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.

How to go

The Hammond event is free; the museum takes RSVPs through its event page. The entrance has five steps, and a wheelchair lift is available. Restrooms are gender-neutral, and chairs with backs will be set out for the talk.

The A, C and E stop at Canal Street and Sixth Avenue, and the 1 stops at Canal and Varick Streets, both a few minutes' walk from 26 Wooster Street.

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