CURRENT & UPCOMING PROJECTS

2025 Arcus Pride Art Exhibition // Clifford Chance DC
Voice of Pride
June 2 - August 1, 2025

Arcus, Clifford Chance's LGBTQ+ and allies community, is thrilled to announce the 19th Annual Arcus Pride Art Exhibition—Voices of Pride. This year's exhibition in Washington, DC features the work of Lola Flash, Wayson Jones, Antonius Tín-Bui, and a selection of archival images from DC's Rainbow History Project.

Our 2025 theme honors the LGBTQ+ community, both within our firm and beyond. The exhibition, curated by Andy Johnson, is a tribute to the trailblazers whose voices have echoed through history, demanding visibility, and acceptance. Simultaneously, it celebrates the new generation of artists who continue to inspire and challenge societal norms with their creativity and resilience.

View the exhibition catalog here.

James Bidgood: Dreamlands
Published by: Salzgeber Buchverlage GMBH & CLAMP Art
Foreword: Hunter O’Hanian
Printed in Italy // 160 pp. // 9.5 x 12.6 inches // Hardcover

With his glamorous dream worlds, the American artist James Bidgood revolutionized photography in the 1960s. His dazzling and masterful stagings of naked young men in exuberant settings — as a provocative alter native to social prudery — are part of the canon of 20th century pho tography. Combining iconic motifs from Bidgood‘s oeuvre with previously unpublished photos, ‘Dreamlands’ takes you on a fantastic trip with images that sparkle, glitter and seduce.

BIOGRAPHY: A stylistic precursor of Steven Arnold, Pierre et Gilles, and David LaChapelle, James Bidgood (1933–2022) was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 50s and apply it to male erotic fantasies. From a midtown tenement during the 1960s, Bidgood completed the bulk of his creative output of photographs using vibrant colors and exaggerated props and costumes to celebrate homosexuality. His works were first published in underground magazines, and he was also the anonymous filmmaker of Pink Narcissus (1971), an explosion of colorful eroticism that has stood the test of time.

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