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.
SHOW AM 20TH CENTURY’S GAY MALE LIFE
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.