19-07-2017 23:00 via theartnewspaper.com

A New York chapel goes Wilde

The importance of Oscar Wilde in the fight against homophobia will be celebrated this September at the Russell chapel in New Yorks Church of the Village in a new installation by the Brooklyn-based artist duo David McDermott and Peter McGough, The Temple of Oscar Wilde (11 September-2 December). The show takes visitors back to Wildes era, transforming the chapel into the style of the 19th-century Aesthetic movement that struck Wilde during his 1882-83 visits to the US as the perfect embodime
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