Mavericks: Salon on Race, Gender, Fashion & Avant-garde Culture in 1970 NYC

Please join ISSG for Mavericks: A Book Salon on Race, Gender, Fashion & Avant-garde Culture in 1970s New York with Professor Uri McMillan.
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Please join the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender for Mavericks: A Book Salon on Race, Gender, Fashion & Avant-garde Culture in 1970s New York with Professor Uri McMillan.

Wednesday, November 4th, 2026: 4-5:30pm

754 Schermerhorn Extension

First come, first seated.

In Mavericks of Style: The Seventies in Color (Duke University Press, 2025), Uri McMillan tells the story of New York City’s downtown art and fashion scene of the 1970s through the lives and careers of experimental Black and Brown artists. McMillan focuses on model and musician Grace Jones, fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez, fashion designer Stephen Burrows, and their orbit of friends, showing how they restlessly moved across genres and disciplines, transgressing boundaries between the commercial and the avant-garde. Bypassing the exclusive art world and cultivating uniquely personal styles, these artists thrived on friendship and collaboration in their experimental use of bold color, gold lamé, and Instamatic photography.

This event is in person only and first come, first seated. Registration does not guarantee seating and is not required for those with Columbia access. If you require special accommodations, please email [email protected].