Agosto Machado

New York City: A figure both unassuming and magnetic, artist-archivist-activist-performer Agosto Machado’s transcendent life is a subcultural version of the American Dream. An orphan and former hustler of Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino descent, Machado, through collaboration with his coterie of outcasts and street queens, shaped the counterculture of the ‘60s and ‘70s, forever impacting American art,…