From gay ics the Bronx to fotten queer Chino artists Los Angel to David Hockney Spa, here are our picks for the shows not to miss.
Contents:
- WHAT TOOK TO CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY ART MM
- NOT 'GAY ART,' BUT 'GOOD ART BY GAY ARTISTS': CULTURAL COUNCIL OPENS SHOW LAKE WORTH BEACH
- THE BIG GAY ART SHOW
- GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
WHAT TOOK TO CREATE THE WORLD’S FIRST GAY ART MM
Charl Llie’s passnate half-century of homoerotic art llectg offers a mirror for the history of gay history self * gay art exhibit *
Our roots trace back to 1969, when Charl Llie and Frz Lohman held an exhib of gay artists for the first time their SoHo loft.
NOT 'GAY ART,' BUT 'GOOD ART BY GAY ARTISTS': CULTURAL COUNCIL OPENS SHOW LAKE WORTH BEACH
Available for viewg and acquisn: gay art drawgs, gay art patgs, and gay art photographs by ternatnally acclaimed artists. * gay art exhibit *
Throughout the 1970s, they ntued to llect and exhib gay artists while supportg the SoHo art muny.
The "Queer Threads" exhibn, which ran early 2014, examed the diversy of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer experienc. From the stage of the Founrs’ Day celebratn of the Llie + Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, the octogenarian art llector addrsed the r crowd there to celebrate the upg expansn of the mm he tablished– a major tone that will double size the world’s first and only mm dited to gay art.
THE BIG GAY ART SHOW
Search 21,286 Gay Men Posters, Art Prts, and Canvas Wall Art. Barewalls provis art prts of over 64 Milln imag! Wholale pric on am. * gay art exhibit *
But before discsg the future, Llie wanted to talk about the origs of his llectn of homoerotic work.
GAY MEN POSTERS AND ART PRTS
The rt, ed, was history: thoands of years of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr history, ignored and relegated to circumscribed footnot, if that. Or as the print of the mm’s board of directors, art historian Jonathan David Katz, puts , Llie “enpsulat the cultural tennci” of more than half a century of gay historic activism. As did for many men of the time, Europe troduced Llie to a more open visn of gay life.
Growg up a small town durg the Deprsn, Llie’s exposure to gayns as an inty was limed to what he uld glean om the encyclopedia. Aware of his own sexual sir om an early age, he left for Los Angel as soon as he uld, where he easily fell wh s sub rosa gay muny.
But was Europe that ma him realize there was such a thg as “gay history” – and that much of that history was only prerved art.