Among the many treasures at the Smithsonian American Art Museum is "Artist to Artist," a modest installation that's easy to miss but well worth a visit in its own right. Assembled from the museum's extensive 20th-century holdings, the exhibition features eight pairings of figures "whose trajectories intersected at a creatively crucial moment, whether as student and teacher, professional allies or ardently close friends." Two of the pairings include at least one LGBTQ figure--in this case, Frank O'Hara, along with his friend Grace Hartigan, a painter. (See the next item for a pair of gay men, both artists.)
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