Self-exposure explores the work of over 100 male photographers who have created nude self-portraits as part of their oeuvre. The self-portrait itself has been a major subject in art since at least the Renaissance. Botticelli included himself among his de’ Medici patrons in the Adoration of the Magi, and Michelangelo de picted himself in the flayed skin of Saint Bartholomew on the Last Judgment fresco. Rembrandt and van Gogh painted numerous self-portraits to record their appearance, age, and state of mind. With the few noteworthy exceptions by men such as Albrecht Dürer and F. Holland Day, the male nude self-portrait is a new theme in art, one explored primarily in twentieth century photography due to avant-garde art forms and the rise of a queer culture.
Reed Massengill has brought together a unique collection of many of these images from the latter half of the twentieth century. One unique characteristic of Self-exposure is the pairing of works by masters such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Duane Michals with those of up-and-coming artists such as Anthony Goicolea and Kobi Israel. The result is an amazing exploration of the male nude self-portrait in all of its diverse color, black-and-white, and mixed media possibilities. The photos are by both gay and straight artists and range from the classic to the curious, the creative to the controversial.
David Hockney’s Peter Washing, Belgrade (1970) provides an interesting early colored contrast to the Royalton Bonus Photographs of Andy Warhol in Columbus Hospital after Shooting (1968). The buffed gods seen in Jack Bales’s concrete poetry-like photos are matched by the beefy hypersexed images of Tom Bianchi’s untitled self-portraits. Some photographers utilize the absent self-portrait, with Jeff Dunas visible only in the shadows that caress a nude woman’s amber lit torso, and Adam Raphael barely seen in the leg that presses against the ephebic nude Manuel in bed. The earth-scapes of Arno Rafael Minkkinen and Douglas Prince call to mind the work of Ana Mendieta with their merging of the human body with the landscape. Transgender imagery is seen in the self-portraits of Yasumasa Morimura, Pierre Molinier, and others. Brotherhood, Crossroads, Etc. #2 by Lyle Ashton Harris shows the photographer and another man [Iké Udé] in nude profile; though they kiss, one holds a gun towards the other’s chest in an exploration of violence and sexuality in the context of the naked phallic pistol. This assault on the senses escalates in the searing cuts of Richard Vechi’s sensual Saint Sebastian-like self-portrait.
Among my personal favorites are works by Gerald Mocarsky and Kelly Grider. Two works by Mocarsky are part of his In My Bed series, where the viewer peers at the artist surrounded by three walls and his bed. In one image, the voyeur catches him in the act of self-fulfillment, a single light bulb dangling in his face as the walls like clouds engu lf him in a heavenly moment. In a second image, the voyeur watches him suffering from psycho-sexual despair. He is nude but for the towel draped over his head, and he clutches at the bedpost while replicated images of his own smiling face look down on him. My other favorite is the classic, yet haunting, black-and-white Hamden Woods by Grider. Here the nude photographer stands lost in a hazy, beautifully lit, dream-like forest, where the bare branches of the trees overshadow and threaten to swallow him.
Massengill’s introductory essay, “Our Fascination with Revelation,” provides a historical background to the subject of the nude male self-portrait, and asks us to consider what the subject actually “reveals” about the photographer, about us, and the inevitable visual relationship between the two. The actor Alan Cummings is the author of the brief foreword, where he reveals his own interests in the public façade and internal truth, and what a nude portrait can truly say about a person. The images in the b ook are arranged alphabetically by photographer. The brief biographical entries and the web sites included at the end of the book are very helpful. However, for the collector of art books, the reproductions are what make this book exquisite. The book is undoubtedly geared toward the gay male market, but it would be erroneous to assume it is only for gay men. The book encompasses the beauty of the human form, male, female, and she-male, and demonstrates the variety of ways in which artists envision themselves and others in the self-portrait form. Self-exposure is one of the most beautiful art photography books published in 2005 and will be a valuable addition to visual studies of the self-portrait, nude photography, and gay male art.
Abley, Sean, “Leaves of glass,” The advocate, #951 (Nov. 22, 2005), p. 64. On works in woven glass by Eric Markow and Thom Norris
Allen, Dan, “Where our history lives,” The advocate, #951 (Nov. 22, 2005), p. 43-44. On Tretter Collection in LGBT Studies, an historical archive at University of Minnesota
Amy, Michaël, “T.J. Wilcox at Metro Pictures, New York,” Art in America, no. 9 (Oct. 2005), p. 180-181
Atwood, Tom. Kings in their castles: photographs of queer men at home. Foreword by Charles Kaiser. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. 75 p. (Terrace books) ISBN 0-299-21150-9
Aus Schaum geboren. Austria: Kunst, Bundeskanzleramt, 1998. 88 p. Exhibition catalog, including essay (p. 21-24) and photos (p. 66-77) by Matthias Herrmann
Ayers, Robert, “Mark Beard [at] John Stevenson, New York,” Art news, v. 104, no. 10 (Nov. 2005), p. 187-188
Baker, Kenneth, “Peter Hujar [at] Fraenkel, San Francisco,” Art news, v. 104, no. 10 (Nov. 2005), p. 189
Barker, Clive. Clive Barker: visions of heaven and hell. New York: Rizzoli; London: Hi Marketing [distributor], 2005. 352 p. ISBN 0847827372
Barliant, Claire, “Robert Melee [at] Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York,” Artforum, v. 44, no. 4 (Dec. 2005), p. 280
Belasco, Daniel, “The vanished prodigy,” Art in America, no. 11 (Dec. 2005), p. 61-67. On Barbara Rubin and her “Christmas on Earth” (1963) and other films
Bellenger, Sylvain. Girodet: album. Paris: Louvre & Gallimard, 2005. 48 p. about 8 euros
Bellenger, Sylvain, ed. Girodet, 1767- 1824. Paris: Louvre & Gallimard, 2005. 352 p. about 49 euros (this show will travel to U.S. and presumably there will be an English version of the catalog)
Berkovitch, Ellen, “Harmony Hammond/Haleh Niazmand: the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, April 9-May 21, 2005 (Hammond), April 14-May 5, 2004 (Niazmand),” artUS, issue 9 (July-Sept. 2005), p. 20
Berlin, Peter, “Berlin on Berlin,” The archive: the journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, no. 18 (autumn 2005), p. 17-18 + 1 p. of illus. Interview by Robert W. Richards, first published in Stallion in 1983
Bleys, Rudi C. Images of ambiente: homotextuality and Latin American art, 1810-today. London and New York: Continuum, 2000. 244 p. ISBN 0-8264-4722-8 (hb) ISBN 0-8264-4723-6 (pbk)
Block, Kael T., “XX boys,” Têtu, no. 104 (Oct. 2005), p. 124-129. On Block and his photos of transmen, and exhibitions in Paris and Brussels, Oct. 2005
Boyce, David B., “Mounting Mapplethorpe,” The gay & lesbian review, v. 13, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2006), p. 50. On “Robert Mapplethorpe and the classical tradition” at the Guggenheim
Brauchitsch, Boris von, “Im Licht des Südens,” Du & Ich, Nr. 416 (Nov./Dez. 2005), p. 114-121. Photos by Herbert List with essay on 30th anniversary of his death
Calhoun, Ada, “The L word: Paris was the place to be for American artists in the 20’s, including lesbians,” New York times book review, Nov. 13, 2005, p. 15. Review of Wild girls: Paris, Sappho and art: the lives and letters of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks by Diana Souhami (St. Martin’s Press)
Camhi, Leslie, “How Ger man is it: a shifting hall of mirrors where every image is haunted,” Village voice, Nov. 30-Dec. 6, 2005, p. 70. On the “Collier Schorr: Jens F.” show at Andrew Roth, New York
Cappock, Margarita. Francis Bacon’s studio. London and New York: Merrell, 2005. 239 p. ISBN 1858942764
Carrier, David, “Jean-Michel Basquiat, Brooklyn Museum, NY, March 11-June 5, 2006,” artUS, issue 9 (July-Sept. 2005), p. 22-23
Chapman, Hugo. Michelangelo drawings: closer to the master. London: British Museum Press, 2005. 320 p. ISBN 0714126403 (U.S. edition published by Yale University Press ISBN 0-300-11147-9 $50)
Cobbett, Aaron, interviewed by T. Hitman, “Picture perfect,” Unzipped, Nov. 2004, p. 36-38
Colman, David, “Return to Peyton Place,” New York times, Dec. 18, 2005, p. ST12. On John Waters and his Christmas traditions
Conquest, Norman. Beuyscout Brand do-it-yourself wood condom. [198-?] Kit in the Franklin Furnace Collection at MoMA
Cotter, Holland, “Peter Hujar, through Jan. 16,” New York times, Nov. 11, 2005, p. E33. On the show at P.S. 1, Long Island City, N.Y.
Cruise, Colin, and Victoria Osborne, editors. Love revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites. London and New York: Merrell Publishers, in association with the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, 2005. 192 p., with 130 illus. (120 color) ISBN 1-85894-311-6 ($49.95)
Cyvoct, Colin, “Francis Bacon, l’empire des sens,” L’œil, no 567 (mars 2005), p. 44-49
D’Agostino, Stephen, “The pictures under your mattress,” New York blade, Dec. 2, 2005, p. 20. On “Pinup men” at Leslie/Lohman
The Downtown book: the New York art scene, 1974-1984. Edited by Marvin J. Taylor, forewo rd by Lynn Gumpert. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006. 208 p. ISBN 0-691-12286-5 Catalog of exhibition at Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, NYU, Jan. 10-Apr. 1, 2006; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, May 20-Sept. 3, 2007; and Austin Museum of Art, Nov. 11, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007
Edison, Laurie Toby, “Beautiful men = Hombres hermosos,” Corpus, v. 3, no. 1 (fall 2005), p. 132-145. Photos by Edison, text by Debbie Notkin, from their book Familiar men
Finkel, Jori, “Dancing on a ceiling (with Tom Cruise),” New York times, Oct. 9, 2005, p. AR36, 38. On Assume Vivid Astro Focus and his “Ecstasy: in and about altered states” installation at the Geffen Contemporary, MOCA, Los Angeles
Fisher, Ian, “Blush if you must, for art’s sake, but don’t panic ,” New York times, Nov. 11, 2005, p. A4. On viewing art in Florence
Garwood, Deborah, “Circumspect cultural pioneer: remembering a mentor, Peter Hujar at P.S. 1 in Long Island City,” Gay city news (NYC), Dec. 1-7, 2005, p. 16, 31
geheimsache:leben: Schwule und Lesben im Wien des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wien: Löcker, 2005. 240 p. ISBN 3854094353 Exhibition catalog edited by Andreas Brunner, Ines Rieder, Nadja Schefzig, Hannes Sulzenbacher, Niko Wahl
Goldman, Jason, “’The golden age of gay porn’: nostalgia and the photography of Wilhelm von Gloeden,” GLQ: a journal of lesbian and gay studies, v. 12, no. 2 (2006), p. 235-256
Goodman, Jonathan, “Chi Peng at Chambers, New York,” Art in America, no. 1 (Jan. 2006), p. 115-116
Green, Penelope, “The book on a grap hics superhero,” New York times, Nov. 3, 2005, p. F1, 6. On Chip Kidd and J.D. McClatchey at home
Hainley, Bruce, “Gary Lee Boas [at] Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles,” Artforum, v. 44, no. 2 (Oct. 2005), p. 282
Halberstam, Judith. In a queer time and place: transgender bodies, subcultural lives. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 213 p. (Sexual cultures) ISBN 0814735843 (cloth) ISBN 0814735851 (pbk) Chapters include “Queer temporality and postmodern geographies” and “Technotopias: representing transgender bodies in contemporary art”
Hall, James. Michelangelo and the reinvention of the human body. London: Chatto & Windus, 2005. 311 p. ISBN 0701172703
Hall, James. Michelangelo and the reinvention of the human body. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 312 p. ISBN 0374208832
Hammer, Barbara, “Lover other and my love of filmmaking,” The archive: the journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, no. 18 (autumn 2005), p. 14-15, with brief bio of Hammer by Helene Dacey and Jaime Rodrigue
Hanson, Sarah P., “True to type,” Art news, v. 104, no. 10 (Nov. 2005), p. 46. On Chip Kidd and the new book on his book designs
Harr, Jonathan. The lost painting: the quest for a Caravaggio masterpiece. New York: Random House, 2005. 271 p. ISBN 0375508015
Harris, Jonathan, editor. Dead history, live art?: spectacle, subjectivity and subversion in visual culture since the 1960s. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005. 256 p. ISBN 0853231893 (hbk) ISDN 0853234388 (pbk)
Harris on, Martin, “Francis Bacon, lost and found,” Apollo magazine, v. 161, no. 517 (new ser.) (Mar. 2005), p. 90-97. On the paintings excavated from the detritus of his studio in Reece Mews, South Kensington, London
Herrera, Hayden. Joan Snyder. Essays by Jenni Sorkin and Norman L. Kleeblatt. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005. 179 p. ISBN 0810959321 (hardcover) ISBN 0810992183 (pbk)
Heuer, Megan, “Danica Phelps [at] Zach Feuer, New York,” Art news, v. 104, no. 10 (Nov. 2005), p. 186-187
Holliday, Frank, “It’s all Warhol to me,” Gay city news (NYC), Nov. 10-16, 2005, p. 16. On “Andy Warhol: the late male nudes” and “Blow job” at Cheim & Read, New York
Holliday, Frank, “Tunnel vision,” Gay city news (NYC), Sept. 8-14, 2005, p. 36. On Sheila Pepe and her installation “Tunnel” at the Jersey City Museum, N.J.
“‘Icons’ rile conservatives,” The advocate, #951 (Nov. 22, 2005), p. 30. Short news item on controversial works by student Sean Gyshen Fennell which were bought by his school Willamette University, Salem, Ore.
Jess, word pictures, Ray Johnson: paste-ups, moticos and asemblages 1951-1997. With “Outsiders on the inside” essay by Michael Auping. San Francisco: Hackett-Freedman Gallery, 2005. 16 p. $20
Johnson, Ken, “Ann Lislegaard, Bellona (after Samuel R. Delany) [at] Murray Guy, 453 West 17th Street, Chelsea, through Dec. 3,” New York times, Nov. 11, 2005, p. E36
Johnson, Ken, “Lari Pittman [at] Gladstone, 515 West 24th Street, Chelsea, through Dec. 23,” New York times, Dec. 9, 2005, p. E41
Kainz, Philipp, “Das Verborgene sichtbar machen,” Lambda Nachrichten, Nr. 108 (Nov.-Dez. 2005), p. 8-9. On “geheimsache:leben” exhibition in Vienna
Kakutani, Michiko, “On the trail of a missing Caravaggio,” New York times, Dec. 2, 2005, p. E42. Review of The lost painting: the quest for a Caravaggio masterpiece by Jonathan Harr (Random House) (I don’t know how much homoerotic content there is, but the book was also chosen as one of the notable books of the year by the N.Y. times)
Kennedy, Sean, “Hung up: a new photo show reveals the secret history of male pinup art,” HX magazine, Dec. 9, 2005, p. 30-33. On “Pinup men” at Leslie/Lohman
Kennedy, Sean, “Kidd dynamite,” The advocate, #951 (Nov. 22, 2005), p. 78-79. On Chip Kidd: Book one and Kidd’s book covers
Kennedy, Sean, “Peter Berlin stories,” HX magazine, issue 750 (Jan. 20, 2006), p. 22-27
Kidd, Chip. Chip Kidd: Book one: work 1986-2006. New York: Rizzoli, 2005. 304 p. ISBN 0847827488 (hbk) ISBN 0847827852 (pbk)
Kimmelman, Michael, “Art out of anything: Rauschenberg in retrospect,” New York times, Dec. 23, 2005, p. E37, 42. O n the show of “Combines” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through Apr. 2, 2006
Kolig, Anton. Anton Kolig: männliche Aktzeichnungen. Edited by Otmar Rychlik and Klaus Albrecht Schröder. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2005. 102 p. (Ausstellung der Albertina, 434) ISBN 3775716831
Kolig, Anton. Anton Kolig: Zeichnungen. Introd. by Peter Weiermair. Innsbruck: Allerheiligenpresse, [198-?] 68 p.
Kramer, Gary M., “Always leave ’em wanting more,” Gay city news (NYC), Jan. 12-18, 2006, p. 16, 20. On “That man: Peter Berlin” (documentary film by Jim Tushinski)
Kuczynski, Alex, “Browsing out loud,” New York times, Dec. 8, 2005, p. G1, 4. On the new Abercrombie & Fitch flagship store on Fifth Avenue, New York, with “images of scantily clad young men ... all over” and murals by Mark Beard (uncredited) and a noise level beyond Kuczynski’s comfort level
LaChapelle, David. Artists & prostitutes 1985-2005. Köln: Taschen, 2005. 690 p. Limited edition available for $1,750 (members $1,575) from International Center for Photography
Latimer, Tirza True. Women together, women apart: portraits of lesbian Paris. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 211 p. ISBN 0-8135-3595-6 (pbk) ISBN 0-8135-3594-8 (hardcover) Contents: Lesbian Paris between the wars; Romaine Brooks: portraits that look back; “Narcissus and Narcissus”: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore; Suzy Solidor and her likes
Le, Viet, “Pictures of you,” Corpus, v. 3, no. 1 (fall 2005), p. 42-51. Photo essay with poem
Ligon, Glenn. Glenn Ligon--some changes. Curated by Wayne Baerwaldt and Thelma Golden. Toronto: Power Plant, 2005. 198 p. Text in French and English. ISBN 1894212061
Little, Carl, “Brett Reichman at P.P.O.W., New York,” Art in America, no. 1 (Jan. 2006), p. 121-122
“Mapplethorpe travels to a laid-back Cuba,” New York times, Jan. 10, 2006, p. E6. 48 photos by Mapplethorpe included in “Sacred and profane” exhibition at gallery in Havana
Marzullo, Greg, “Boys & girls and everything in between: local gay artists tackle gender issues in new, month-long exhibit,” Washington blade, Nov. 11, 2005. available online at www.washblade.com. On “Hey, is that a boy or a girl?” at the Warehouse Theater and exhibition space
Massengill, Reed, “Pinupmen,” The archive: the journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, no. 18 (autumn 2005), p. 5-8. On the show he curated at Leslie/Lohman
May, Stephen, “Modernist from Maine: [review of] Marsden Hartley: race, religion, and nation by Donna M. Cassidy,” Art news, v. 104, no. 10 (Nov. 2005), p. 144
McComb, Jessie F., “The art of Andy Warhol: anticipating male objectification,” The pamphlet project, v. 1.1 (Oct. 2005), broadsheet www.redearthindia.com/ pamphlet/issue_1.1.html
Miles, Christopher, “Isaac Julien [at] MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles,” Artforum, v. 44, no. 3 (Nov. 2005), p. 259
Mondini-Ruiz, Franco. High pink: Tex-Mex fairy tales. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2005. 126 p. ISBN 1-933045-12-4
Morris, Roderick Conway, “Genoa is the new home of decorative arts collection,” New York times, Dec. 28, 2005, p. E3. On Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. and the portion of his collection opening as Wolfsoniana in Genoa, Italy
Muschamp, Herbert, “The secret history,” New York times, Jan. 8, 2006, p. AR1, 34-35. On the generation of cultural gay New Yorkers who came of age in the 1960s, on the occasion of the remodeling of 2 Columbus Circle (formerly Huntington Hartford’s Gallery of Modern Art)
Neal, Jane, “Isaac Julien [at] Victoria Miro Gallery, London,” Flash art, v. 39, no. 246 (Jan.-Feb. 2006), p. 105-106
Neil, Jonathan T.D., “Factum I, Factum II,” Modern painters, Dec. 2005/Jan. 2006, p. 76-77
Nickas, Robert, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres; all the time in the world,” Flash art, v. 39, no. 246 (Jan.-Feb. 2006), p. 90-93. Interview with FGT originally appearing in Flash art international, Nov.-Dec. 1991
Northcross, Wayne, “Nostalgic fantasies,” Gay city news (NYC), Dec. 22-28, 2005, p. 16, 21. On Jack Pierson show at Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
Northcross, Wayne, “Seductive and complicit: performance art stages its first Biennial in PERFORMA 05,” Gay city news (NYC), Nov. 24-30, 2005, p. 23, 27
Olesen, Henrik. Henrik Olesen. Wien: Secession, 2004. 55 p. ISBN 3-9019 26-65-8 Catalog of exhibition from Feb. 19-Apr. 18, 2004
Orr, Joey, “Fly on the web: when performance goes on-line,” The gay & lesbian review, v. 13, no. 1 (Jan.-Feb. 2006), p. 16-19
Osuna, “Alex in Wonderland,” Corpus, v. 3, no. 1 (fall 2005), p. 2-9. Photos by Osuna with text as told to Patrick “Pato” Hebert
P-Orridge, Genesis, “When two become one: conversation with Scott Treleaven,” Useless, issue 2 ([Dec. 2005]), p. 38-41
Peppiatt, Michael. Francis Bacon: anatomie d’une énigme. Paris: Flammarion, 2004
Pfeiffer, Walter, “Walter Pfeiffer, Switzerland’s most fabulous artist is in love with beauty and hiking,” interview and portraits by Jap van Bennekom, Butt: hysterical magazine for homosexuals, #14 (autumn 2005), p. 12-18 + photos on p. 19-25
“Philip Johnson: an American icon,” Architectural record, v. 193, no. 5 (May 2005), p. 176-183. Remarks by Suzanne Stephens, Franz Schulze, Robert A.M. Stern, and Michael Sorkin, and 22 illustrations
Porter, Fairfield. Material witness: the selected letters of Fairfield Porter. Edited by Ted Leigh, introd. by David Lehman, with additional notes by Justin Spring. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 350 p. ISBN 0472109766
Portwood, Jerry, “Duct work: artist uses her body as witness to a transgender ritual,” New York blade, Nov. 11, 2005, p. 19. On “Binding ritual, daily routine” performance by Mary Coble at Artists Space, New York, Nov. 17, 2005
Portwood, Jerry, “Underneath his clothes,” New York blade, Dec. 23, 2005, p. 20. On “Men without suits: objectifying the American male body” at the Museum of Sex, New York www.museumofsex.com
Prenner, Michael, “King of trash: Pornos, Schwänze und jede Menge Schmutz,” Du & Ich, Nr. 416 (Nov./Dez. 2005), p. 16-19. Interview with John Waters, photos by Promo
Rauschenberg, Robert, “Round the block once or twice: a conversation with Rosetta Brooks,” Modern painters, Dec. 2005/Jan. 2006, p. 70-75. In which the artist claims there is nothing autobiographical in the “Combines”
Reed, Arden, “Harmony Hammond at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe,” Art in America, no. 9 (Oct. 2005), p. 188
Rhein, Eric, “Leaves: a remembrance,” A & u, issue 134 (Dec. 2005), p. 22-23. “Eric Rhein talks to A&u’s Lester Strong about art as a means of transcendence”
Robinson, Gerard, “Viewer discretion: Stephen Hale’s provocative pencil works hint at chance encounters,” New York blade, Sept. 9, 2005, p. 21. On “Indiscreet: candid views by Stephen Hale” at Leslie/Lohman
Rowe, Michael, “Scary as hell,” The advocate, #952 (Dec. 6, 2005), p. 76. On Clive Barker: visions of heaven and hell (Rizzoli)
Rychlik, Otmar. Anton Kolig und seine letzten Modelle. Nötsch im Gailtal: Museum des Nötscher Kreises, 2000. 110 p. (Band II der Schriftenreihe des Museums des Nötscher Kreises) ISBN 3-9501340-0-X
Saltz, Jerry, “Our Picasso?” Village voice, Jan. 11-17, 2006, p. 79. On Robert Rauschenberg “Combin es” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Schorr, Collier. Jens F. London: steidlMACK, 2005. 168 p., 148 col. plates. ISBN 3-86521-156-9 ($250.00) This book was viewed at related exhibition at Andrew Roth, Inc. in New York and is magnificently produced.
Schulze, Franz, “Philip Johnson (1906-2005),” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, v. 64, no. 4 (Dec. 2005), p. 587-590
Schulze, Franz, “Philip Johnson (1906-2005) and the importance of resilience,” American art, v. 19, no. 3 (fall 2005), p. 92-94
Schwain, Kristin, “F. Holland Day’s Seven last words and the religious roots of American modernism,” American art, v. 19, no. 1 (spring 2005), p. 32-59
Shaked, Nizan, “Third pole: the stills of Isaac Julien’s True North,” X-tra: contemporary art quarterly, v. 8, no. 2 (winter 2005), p. 60-63
Shand-Tucci, Douglass. Ralph Adams Cram: an architect’s four quests: medieval, modernist, American, ecumenical. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. 600 p. ISBN 1558494898 ($49.95) Volume 2 of his Ralph Adams Cram: life and architecture (v. 1: Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900, 1995)
Smith, Roberta, “Artists’ personal visions reveal a nation to itself,” New York times, Dec. 28, 2005, p. E1, 5. On “Imagining America” on PBS; Smith notes that Warhol is discussed without mentioning gay and Wojnarowicz without mentioning AIDS
Smith, Roberta, “Donald Moffett [at] Marianne Boesky Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, through Nov. 12,” New York times, Nov. 4, 2005, p. E38
Smith, Roberta, “Franco Mondini-Ruiz: Quattrocento [at] Frederieke Taylor Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, through Jan. 7,” New York times, Dec. 30, 2005, p. E39
Smith, Roberta, “Robert Melee: In between false comforts and Talk to the land [at] Andrew Kreps, 558 West 21st Street, Chelsea, through tomorrow,” New York times, Nov. 11, 2005, p. E36
Souhami, Diana. Wild girls: Paris, Sappho and art: the lives and letters of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. 224 p. ISBN 029764386X Also published in U.S. by St. Martin’s Press, New York ISBN 0312343248
Spence, Rebecca, “’It could have been a lot worse’: Hurricane Katrina spared major collections in New Orleans, though it damaged museum buildings, artists’ studios, and historic houses across the region,” Art news, v. 104, no. 10 (Nov. 2005), p. 63-64. Includes conversation with Arthur Roger, gallery owner, who planned to open “Comeback group exhibition” in November
Spence, Rebecca, “Putting her best foot forward,” Art news, v. 104, no. 11 (Dec. 2005), p. 42. On Tamra Davis and her documentary on Jean-Michel Basquiat
Spiher, David, “Saturated, jewel-colored glazes,” Gay city news (NYC), Dec. 15-21, 2005, p. 16. On the Lari Pittman show at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Sprigle, David Aden. Bottoms up. Santa Monica, Calif.: FotoFactory Press, 2005. 109 p. ISBN 1-883923-94-8 “Photographic essay of naked young men in the classic yoga pose Ananda Balasana, also known as ‘The blissful baby’”
Taylor, Sue, “Wood’s American logic,” Art in America, no. 1 (Jan. 2006), p. 86-93. Includes discussion of Wood’s homosexuality and the difficulty of being gay in the rural Midwest
Tillmans, Wolfgang. Truth study center. Essay by Minoru Shimizu. Köln; London: Taschen, 2005. 200 p. ISBN 3822846406 (pbk)
Tillmans, Wolfgang, “Who do you love?: Ira Genzken in conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans,” Artforum, v. 44, no. 3 (Nov. 2005), p. 226-229
Tillmans, Wolfgang, “Wolfgang Tillmans s’assombrit,” Têtu, no. 104 (Oct. 2005), p. 110-117. Photos by Tillmans, text by Thomas Doustaly
Tomkins, Calvin. Off the wall: a portrait of Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Picador, 2005. 318 pp. ISBN 0-312-42585-6 ($17.00 pbk) New ed. with additional essay which first appeared in The New Yorker, May 23, 2005
Treleaven, Scott, “Scott Treaven [sic], artist,” Useless, issue 2 ([Dec. 2005]), p. 42-43. Photos
Tseng, Kwong Chi. Ambiguous ambassadors. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2005. ISBN 1590051173
Turnbaugh, Douglas Blair, “Bigots bash Batman,” The archive: the journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, no. 18 (autumn 2005), p. 11-12. On censorship, Mark Chamberlain and his “Queer Batman” works
Turnbaugh, Douglas Blair, “Strangers in paradise,” The archive: the journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, no. 18 (autumn 2005), p. 13. On Gloedeneries Caravagesques: Von Gloeden, Von Plüschow, Vincenzo Galdi, published by Nicole Canet, Galerie Au bonheur du jour, Paris
Turner, Elisa, “The Hardy Boys meet the sea nymphs,” Art news, v. 105, no. 1 (Jan. 2006), p. 110-113. On Hernan Bas
Varnell, Paul, “’Male art’: nude and homoerotic,” Philadelphia gay news, Jan. 6-12, 2006, p. 70, 68, 64. Review of Male desire: the homoerotic in American art by Jonathan Weinberg (Abrams)
Vartanian, Hrag, “Homomuseum: heroes and monuments [at] Exit Art,” Brooklyn rail, Sept. 2005, p. 14
Vogel, Carol, “The Robert Rauschenberg reunion tour,” New York times, Dec. 18, 2005, p. AR1, 38
Volcano, Del LaGrace. Sex works. Essay by Beatriz Preciado. Konkursbuchverlag, 2005 www.dellagracevolcano.com
Walsh, Richard, “Fallen leaves,” Metrosource, Feb./Mar. 2006, p. 48-49. On Eric Rhein’s “Leaf project”
Warhol, Andy. Eros and mortality: the late male nudes. Essay by Simon Goldhill. New York: Cheim and Read Gallery, 2005. 96 p. $65
Wilford, John Noble, “A mystery, locked in timeless embrace,” New York times, Dec. 20, 2005, p. F1, 4. On Donald O’Connor and his identification of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep as conjoined twins
Willick, Damon, “Reading Jean-Michel Basquiat,” X-tra: contemporary art quarterly, v. 8, no. 2 (winter 2005), p. 48-51
Winner, David, “The boys on the side: remembering Tobias Schneebaum -- and other members of an unconventional salon,” Village voice, Nov. 30-Dec. 6, 2005, p. 14
Wright, Karen, “Fuming: David Hockney on painting, bohemia and freedom of choice,” Modern painters, Dec. 2005/Jan. 2006, p. 66-69
Wróblewska, Hanna, “Katarzyna Kozyra: in art dreams come true,” Flash art, v. 39, no. 246 (Jan.-Feb. 2006), p. 62-66
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