Hilarity In the Galleries

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For Art After Dark this month, the museum invited six drag queens to lead tours through the galleries. The queens would vamp and make jokes about themselves and the works, keeping the tours light and fun. Several of them were genuinely cracking me up while I was photographing them doing their thing.

At one point, the queen was saying something about how the world has had it with mansplaining, and she looked at me and goes, “isn’t that right, Mr. Photographer?”

Without missing a beat (I’m very proud of this), I went, “Well, actually…” and raised a finger before pausing and smiling. The whole room erupted into laughter. Felt really good in the moment.

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