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At NBC News, Dan Allen reviews 13 new exhibitions about LGBTQ artists in the United States and Europe, all of them running through the summer. Highlights include photographs by Tom of Finland (New York); the “vivid, dreamlike paintings” of Kenyan-born artist Michael Armitage (London); the ’60s mod fashion of Rudi Gerneich, who was Harry Hay’s partner (Phoenix, Arizona); and Gregg Bordowitz’s AIDS-inflected video art (New York). Here’s hoping for one sometime soon on Swedish painter Eugène Jansson (1862–1915), whose masterpiece Flottans Badhus (Naval Bath House) is pictured above.
Other shows of note include the luminous youths of Henry Scott Tuke at the Watts Gallery in England, which spawned a ; “Lucian Freud’s gay relationships” with Adrian Ryan and John Minton in Bath, England (reviewed in The Guardian); sailors and sex in Barcelona; historical photographs of Cherry Grove, Fire Island; and a decorous selection of George Platt Lynes’ nude-ish photographs of men in Boston (the last two reviewed here)... >> Read more >>
