The Stonewall Riots’ Effect, 50 Years On

To decide which 22 artists would be included in the Brooklyn Museum exhibit “Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 Years After Stonewall” five co-curators conducted studio visits. A studio visit certainly isn’t out of the ordinary for curators looking to get to know artists. But the conversations Margo Cohen Ristorucci, Lindsay C. Harris, Carmen Hermo, Allie Rickard and Lauren Zelaya had with the young creatives during those drop-ins helped them shape this wide-ranging project — which bows at the museum on May 3 — into one cohesive story. During these studio visits (which sometimes took place over FaceTime or Skype), the curators discussed with artists the concept they’d come up with for the exhibit, which showcases the work of artists born after the 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn — and the effects these events have on the generations that followed. Tuesday Smillie’s “S.T.A.R.”  Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum They talked for hours about the show’s four themes: revolt, heritage, desire and care. According to Zelaya, the acting director for public programming at the museum, they hashed out how the artists could contribute to the exhibition, whether through commissioned pieces or with works they’d already created. “That’s when a lot of light bulbs went

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