ANDOVER — “Secrets, Loss, Memory, and Courage: Works by Gay Male Artists” at the Addison Gallery of Amerin Art don’t center on the AIDS epimic, but on the disease self and how talyzed gay artists, f everythg.
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WALTER GAY
An expatriate who left Boston for Brtany, Gay began his reer wh genre scen om eighteenth-century life, shiftg 1884 to the kd of realistic peasant picture seen Novembre Étapl [SAAM, 1977.111]. * gay artists 20th century *
In the last 50 years alone, Keh Harg’s drawgs have raised awarens for the AIDS crisis of the ’80s; Nan Gold’s hntg photographs of New York’s unrbelly has shed light on the queer muny; Robert Mapplethorpe shocked the public wh his graphic imag of gay sex acts, promptg a revaluatn of bety and propriety.
Thk Ryan McGley’s gay kissg photographs, Juliana Huxtable‘s provotive multi-media work and Wu Tsang’s vio and performance art, to say nothg of J. In the meantime, we’re takg you on a big gay art history tour through bohemian f, funky studs and dty mm basements to retroduce you to some well-known nam that you might not have known were queer.
SHOW AM 20TH CENTURY’S GAY MALE LIFE
David might not be homosexual, but he’s fely not heteronormative.
There’s murky homoeroticism the background of an artist’s work, and then there’s “wh the ck your asshole.
But he was also bold enough to pat homoerotic and homosocial scen, like Dancg Sailors. It’s a potent and necsary remr that gay love is jt about sex, pecially nsirg how lbian upl have appeared throughout Wtern art history: eroticized, fallen, impure, wchy and bched. When Robert Rschenberg died 2008, both the New York Tim and the Los Angel Tim “fot” to mentn one mor tail of his life their obuari: he was gay.