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. Read terviews and profil of ntemporary artists who portray LGBT history, sex, culture, and polics wh their works. Browse through the artist spotlight and other sectns that celebrate gay culture.
Contents:
- THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
- NOT 'GAY ART,' BUT 'GOOD ART BY GAY ARTISTS': CULTURAL COUNCIL OPENS SHOW LAKE WORTH BEACH
- "GAY"/ FE ART PRTS ▼
- GAY ART
THE GAY FIGURE ARTISTS ARE REIMAGG THE MALE GAZE
T3 Founr, thor of Cowgirl Power and female artist Gay Gaddis shar her spiratn behd her patgs of Texas landsp and ski. * gay art artists *
>About GayNOTABLE ART BUYERSBrené Brown, NY Tim Bt-Sellg Author and Rearcher (Hoton, TX)Oliver Plunkett, CEO of Ocean Infy (Hoton, TX & London, UK)Macy & May Middleton, Texas Senator (Hoton, TX)Kara Medoff Bart, Executive Director of Amerin Ballet Theatre (New York Cy)Carrie & Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likeable & CEO of Apprentice (New York Cy)Stt Lanrs, CEO & Print of Monotype (Boston, MA)Pamela J. Becky BUYERMEDIAT3 founr, thor and artist Gay Gaddis speaks wh New York Tim bt-sellg thor and Texas Monthly Executive Edor Skip Hollandsworth about Gay’s private art stud and gallery lled Fossil Ridge at Double Heart Ranch and the spiratn behd her Texas landspe ABOUT GAY’S FOSSIL RIDGE ART STUDIO >. 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.
NOT 'GAY ART,' BUT 'GOOD ART BY GAY ARTISTS': CULTURAL COUNCIL OPENS SHOW LAKE WORTH BEACH
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Even as they emphasised the Christian msage of this scene, homosexual artists of the Renaissance were not bld to the more obv meang of the Ganyme myth.
Today his works, cludg a patg of Ganyme before he is rried off, are some of the few ma by a homosexual artist that explore the psychology of gay men. 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.
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.
"GAY"/ FE ART PRTS ▼
Bgraphi and analysis of work by Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr+ intified artists, or works associated wh LGBT+ topics. * gay art artists *
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. Pavg the way for Pop, Rschenberg’s work might not openly reference his sexualy like some other artists’, but cric Robert Hugh lled Monogram “one of the few great ins of male homosexual love morn culture.
AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTWorkg largely outsi the gallery system, a group of illtrators is revivg the disciple and refg how queer bodi are reprented MacConnell, “Ernie” 2014, waterlor and pen on paperLAST FALL, IN a ty apartment downtown New York, a 30-year-old gay physique mol named Matthew Williams stood naked agast a whe backdrop ont of the gay artist John MacConnell.
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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! BOYS! BOYS! Here The Queer Review previews some of the work clud the magaze. Luiz © Xavier Samre.… * gay art artists *
Over the next 2, 000 years, pturg the naked male form beme an sential artistic skill, one that reached s apotheosis Wtern culture durg the Italian Renaissance, when homosexual sire was subtly exprsed Donatello’s bronze “David” (cir 1440) and Caravagg’s patg “The Micians” (1597), where the tradnal female me is replaced wh a band of boys, partially robed togas, referencg a Greek and Roman perd which homoeroti was a part of society.