An Eclectic Archive of Cultural Currents: “The First Homosexuals” at Wrightwood 659
Curators attempt to trace how a nascent word for a queer identity influenced the following decades of visual art.
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Pleasure in Perversion: Austin Osman Spare at Iceberg Projects
Illustrating a cornucopia of perversions, Austin Osman Spare's drawings highlight the skills that made him a celebrated artist, and the wide-ranging interests that dimmed his career.
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Birds of Paradise: Tony Fitzpatrick at Cleve Carney Museum of Art
Sentimental and mythological, Tony Fitzpatrick's multimedia collages conjure a vibrant, gritty Chicago that is no more—or perhaps never was.
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The World on a Single Plane: Joseph E. Yoakum at the Art Institute of Chicago
An exhibition of more than one hundred works by Joseph Yoakum illuminates the pleasures and difficulties of the visionary artist's immense oeuvre.
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One Work: Yannis Tsarouchis’s “Dancing in Real Life and in Theatre”
Distinct from much of his oeuvre, Yannis Tsarouchis's panoramic oil painting of male couples still exemplifies the Greek artist's erotic and sometimes fantastical scenes.
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The Psychic Heft of Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s Disfigured Portraits
Although Nathaniel Mary Quinn's faces look collaged, they're actually rendered with oil, paint stick, gouache, and pastel, usually against a plain colored background. He works intuitively but…
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Vaginal Davis’s Video The White to Be Angry Is a Ham-Fisted Caricature of Right-Wing Extremism
In a political moment riven by dogmatism, Vaginal Davis's work subverting categories of race and gender is freshly urgent.
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Joseph Sterling’s Mastery of Midcentury Photographic Innovations Was Both a Strength and a Weakness
Joseph Sterling died in 2010, at age seventy-four, having never received the sort of blue-chip retrospective that helped canonize Ray Metzker and Kenneth Josephson, his contemporaries and fellow…
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Brittany Nelson Puts a Sci-Fi Spin on Closeted Gay Life
Brittany Nelson's exhibition merged the biography of New Wave author Alice Sheldon (pen name, James Tiptree Jr.) and the lonely wanderings of the Mars Opportunity Rover.
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American Beauty: April Dawn Alison’s Photographs
There's a tension between voyeurism and exhibitionism in April Dawn Alison's archive of cross-dressing self-portraits, and the aftertaste of contraband, which the Polaroid format only intensifies.
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