Odd clns and glarg omissns spoil what uld have been a glor celebratn of gay Brish art
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QUEER BRISH ART 1861-1967 REVIEW: DIFFERENT SHAS OF GAY
Could Lord Leighton be gay? The curators of this show take the “homoerotic pleasur of viewg the figure” for granted, and make much of Michelangelo’s homosexualy. Is the artist gay, is the art gay, do have a gay sensibily?
His sters clud Italian mols and English gby players the pose of Greek gods, and he has bee somethg of a gay hero. Ellis was a genicist, but his study of gay and transgenr sex tmps his sire to weed out the weak, which go unmentned.
Photograph: Natnal Portra GalleryAng McBean ma surreal photo-llag of his many gay iends om the 30s, cludg Robert Helpmann, Bkie Bemont and Beatrix Lehmann. Yet seems to qualify for this show stead bee of the “erotic potential” of the mol’s “rosy bottom” when the artists are gay (Knight wasn’t) the work is strangely selected. But ’s easy to image a show of all the artists and more, which the works would enrich each other while rryg the narrative of gay Brish history down the s.