MERYL MEISLER: STUDIO 54 & MORE
March 21 – May 17, 2025
12, rue Saint-Gilles, 75003 Paris, France
Curator: Adélie de Ipanema, Director
For more information contact Anaïs Raffin
Vernissage Thursday, March 20, 18h – 08h30. Meryl will be present.
Echoing the exhibition “Disco, I’m coming out” at the Philharmonie de Paris, Polka invites you to rediscover the roaring twenties of this musical genre as committed as it is innovative with the work of New Yorker Meryl Meisler. A chronicler of the disco effervescence at the end of the 1970s, the photographer has delved back into her archives and tells us about the nightlife of Manhattan’s mythical nightclubs, including the famous “Studio 54”.
DISCO, I’m Coming Out
Philharmonie de Paris Musée De La Musique
On exhibit through August 17, 2025
Curators: Jean-Yves Leloup, commissaire & Marion Challier, commissaire-associée
221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris, France
For more information contact Hamid Si Amer
Casting aside the clichés, this exhibition does justice to the dazzling power of disco – a genre deeply rooted in the history and culture of black America, descended from soul, gospel and funk.
A collection of audiovisual archives, photographs, instruments, costumes, design objects and works of art underlines the political and festive dimension of this music, which brought different minorities and social classes to the dance floor, all united in the same hedonistic impulse. Artists include: Meryl Meisler, Andy Warhol, Peter Hujar, Faith Ringgold, Tom Bianchi, Michael Abramson, Tina Paul, Pacifico Silano, and Bill Bernstein.
Care / Condition / Control
On exhibit through April 27, 2025
Curator: A.E. Chapman
88 Eldridge St., NYC, NY
For more information contact Sara Shaoul
Humans are obsessed with hair. And hair is never just hair. Intensely personal, it is quite literally how people frame themselves to signal their desired appearance to others. Individuals use hair as an expressive language to convey both their individuality and collective affiliations, and societies in turn regulate hair as a means to enforce and maintain social control, allegiance, and order. Be it conforming or rebellious, hair reflects and negotiates the social contracts between individuals and gender, racial, subcultural, and religious identities. Artist include: Meryl Meisler, John Coplans, Sara Messinger, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and Melissa Stern.
Photo titles from top to bottom and left to right:
Dancing at The Monster During Bartenders’ Weekend, Cherry Grove, Fire Island, NY, September 1977
Ripped Stocking and Garter Dance Trio at GG’s Barnum Room, NY, NY, December 1978
Rejected From Studio 54 No No (With JudiJupiter), Studio 54, NY, NY, October 1978
Man In The Moon With An Animated Spoon, Studio 54, NY, NY, August 1977
Crucify, Star Wars Party, Fire Island Pines, NY, August 1977
Two Women Embrace on Floor Next to JudiJupiter’s Legs, Les Mouches, NY, NY, June 1978
Mom Getting her hair Teased at Besame Beauty Salon North Massapequa, NY, June 1976
BUTCH FEM BUTCH, Pride March, NY, NY, June 1977
Orange, Pink, Turquoise, and Gold Queen on Floor Studio 54, NY, NY, August 1977
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