Gay Art

PHOTOS: A Look Back At The Gay Heyday Of New York's Waterfront

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 04.05.2012

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They might not date back as far as Athens' Acropolis or Egypt's pyramids, but according to Jonathan D. Katz, the piers which line New York's riverfron...

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Do You Hate Homoerotic Art? Is It The Art, Or Is It You?

David Leddick | Posted 05.16.2012

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David Leddick

Did you think homoeroticism in art was just a late-20th-century phenomenon, that artists like Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Weber, and many others were something new under the sun? We all might as well face it: homoerotic art has been with us always.

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WATCH: Gay Indian Artist Attacked During Exhibition

Posted 01.06.2012

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An Indian artist was brutally attacked by an unidentified assailant during an exhibition of his homoerotic paintings in Delhi, the Times of India is r...

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Queer/Art/Mentorship: Why I Dislike the Term 'Queer Art' But Mentor a Queer Artist Anyway

Everett Quinton | Posted 01.03.2012

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Everett Quinton

I, like so many other queer artists, grew up in fear and isolation. Even with evidence to the contrary, I still thought I was the only queer in the world. A queer mind full of wonderful queer ideas with nobody to talk to about them.

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A New Community: Queer/Art/Mentorship

Ira Sachs | Posted 12.04.2011

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Ira Sachs

By creating a structure for interaction among artists, among queers, among generations, we hope to create a new sense of home, a new community. Who knows what trouble we can cause.

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Hide/Seek and Don't Ask Don't Tell

Alison Teal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alison Teal

In today's Washington, we find ourselves looking to the Portrait Gallery for leadership, not our elected officials.

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Childhood, Violence, and Alien Mating Practices: James Franco's "The Dangerous Book Four Boys"

Andrew Gorin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Gorin

Franco's "The Dangerous Book Four Boys" went up last week at the Clocktower Gallery, P.S.1. curator Alanna Heiss' famed alternative space. It's an engaging first show from Franco, and a daring move from Heiss.

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