Gay Art for Sale

Contents:

• GAY ART HISTORY TOURS HOMOEROTILLY RETHK THE METROPOLAN MM’S ARTWORK
• GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
• GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
• GAY ART
• THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
• "GAY"/ FE ART PRTS ▼

GAY ART HISTORY TOURS HOMOEROTILLY RETHK THE METROPOLAN MM’S ARTWORK

Followg the succs of the first issue earlier this year, The Ltle Black Gallery has jt announced the publitn of Volume 2 of s stunng fe art photography magaze dited to queer and gay photography, BOYS! “Dpe the panmic we managed to lnch a new pennt magaze dited to queer and gay photography, ” ments Ghisla Pasl, -founr and -owner of The Ltle Black Gallery and curator and edor of BOYS!

It jt go to show that there is a market for a well-produced prt magaze showsg fe art photography by queer and gay photographers that is not jt a dick magaze!

Art platform to promote queer and gay photography which now reprents more than 67 photographers om 27 untri – cludg Cha, India, Iran, Poland, Rsia and Turkey where gay rights are reprsed and queer liv unr nstant threat. He was the on air film cric on both Gaydar Rad and Gayd's breakfast shows and has ntributed to the UK's bt sellg LGBTQ publitn, Attu Magaze.

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As art holds an sential place the LGBT muny, The Advote striv to she a light on the work of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr artists who are movg the cultural needle wh the artists spotlight sectn. Disver slishows om gay art opengs across the world wh mediums that range om photographs, to oils, to sculpture, and more.

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Browse through the artist spotlight and other sectns that celebrate gay culture. 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.

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.

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Osr Wil Tours isn’t the first group to latch onto the ia of ssg out the gay them artworks proment stutns. 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.

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“There’s so much homoeroticism the history of art that you n’t keep out that easily, ” Lear told the Daily Beast. 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.

Homosexualy has, for most of history, been a taboo subject.

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It is only relatively recent tim that the subject of homoeroticism has been able to be addrsed wh any serns at all. Wh the growg acceptance of sexual diversy has e a rethkg of the role played by homosexualy art history. Christiany disapproved of all erotic art, but particularly anythg that hted at homosexual attractn.

It did not stop the great paters of the Renaissance, many of whom are today acknowledged as gay, om portrayg the sexual allure of famoly, the var versns of St Sebastian’s martyrdom, showg a spicly mcular torso punctured by arrows, achieved inic stat among homosexual admirers who rpond not only to his physil bety, but also to his plight as a tortured, yet steadfast, martyr.

Homosexualy as a label, or a mo of inty, did not appear Europe until the 19th century. ESTIMATE: £18, 000–25, took until the epochal social chang of the 1960s (and specifilly the crimalisatn act of 1967 the UK) for homosexualy to prise self out of the closet, and art acted as both talyst and rerr of the moment. Mapplethorpe picted the sado-masochistic trop of gay sex, not primarily as attempts to outrage the public, but as ntral, if betifully shot, rerds of homosexual activy.

By the time of his ath om an AIDS-related illns 1989, the alarmg spread of the disease had bee a clarn-ll for gay artists, rultg the explicly polil art of Keh Harg and the Gran Fury llective.

ESTIMATE: £3, 000–5, the ol gaze of Andy Warhol, meanwhile, the cliched hyper-masculy of gay p-ups was gently ironised: his starkly-l, tightly-cropped Body Builr of 1982 is absurdly out of proportn, an afont to classil ials of manly 21st century has seen a growg acceptance of homosexualy, but only up to a pot. Artists ntue to challenge those who would ny their right to exprs and mentate on their own sexual orientatn, most recently 2010’s "Hi/Seek: Difference and Dire Amerin Portraure” exhibn at the Smhsonian’s Natnal Portra Gallery Washgton DC, which provoked lls for a ngrsnal review of the Smhsonian’s the subject of homoeroticism ntu to make s prence felt the cultural mastream: wns the Brish Mm’s A Ltle Gay History gui, explicly drawg attentn to objects wh homosexual them the llectn. Jerry Douglas's Tubstrip, a risque edy set a gay bathhoe, was a popular sensatn when produced onstage 1973-1974, the era of gay liberatn and the sexual revolutn.

The play, often dismissed by mastream crics but hailed as "funny, sexy, and important" by the gay prs, ran for 140 performanc off-Broadway, then toured to eight ci over ne months, and returned to Broadway starrg the legendary adult film star Casey Donovan the lead role. Dpe s unprecented succs and acclaim, the play was not officially published until wh the but publitn of the script of the play, this edn clus a foreword by Jordan Schildcrout tled "Tubstrip and The Erotic Theatre of Gay Liberatn", which exam the signifince of the play as one of a wave of erotic gay plays (most of them fotten or lost) that emerged between 1969 and 1974.