Get a gay art history tour of the Metropolan Mm om Osr Wil Tours, which explor the homosexual unrton of a wi range of work.
Contents:
- GAY SECRETS OF THE METROPOLAN MM - A VIRTUAL TOUR
- GAY ART HISTORY TOURS HOMOEROTILLY RETHK THE METROPOLAN MM’S ARTWORK
- SECRET GAY TOUR OF THE MET
- GAY SECRETS OF THE MET TOUR: FRI 6/23 6PM
GAY SECRETS OF THE METROPOLAN MM - A VIRTUAL TOUR
* gay secrets of the metropolitan museum of art *
There’s plenty to see at New York’s Metropolan Mm of Art, but only one man is offerg gay art history tours of the venerable stutn. Through his pany Osr Wil Tours, reports the Daily Beast, 56-year-old art historian Andrew Lear is shg a new light on the Met’s surprisgly homoerotic llectn.
GAY ART HISTORY TOURS HOMOEROTILLY RETHK THE METROPOLAN MM’S ARTWORK
In London, Lear hosted “From Edward II to Ian McKellen: the World’s Gayt Natnal Portra Gallery, ” while the Louvre got a siar treatment Paris.
This year’s offergs clu an Italian tour October, and a number of gay-foced tours of New York, cludg the two-hour Met vis. Osr Wil Tours isn’t the first group to latch onto the ia of ssg out the gay them artworks proment stutns.
SECRET GAY TOUR OF THE MET
Quiky, a gay travel pany, giv tours of the Vatin that celebrat the homosexualy of Renaissance artists like Michelangelo (see Gay Art Tours of the Vatin Are All the Rage). While the ancient Greek and Roman galleri might seem like a natural startg place, wh their embrace of the male nu and overtly sexual, often homoerotic imagery, pecially on vas, Lear also explor homosexual unrton and them Oceanic works, Renaissance masterpiec, and morn patgs. “There’s so much homoeroticism the history of art that you n’t keep out that easily, ” Lear told the Daily Beast.
GAY SECRETS OF THE MET TOUR: FRI 6/23 6PM
Pasquali, Lear wrote on the Gay and Lbian Review, was a famo strato, and the lover of the proment rdal who missned the patg, which promently featur the god’s genalia.