Organized by the Leslie Lohman Museum for Gay and Lesbian Art and curated by scholar Jonathan David Katz, "The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History" investigates the continued centrality of the classical nude over centuries of art making. The exhibition explores how images of the classical past have acted as recurring touchstones in the historical development of same-sex representation, and as such, constitute a sensitive barometer of the shifting constructions of what we today call gay and lesbian or queer culture. The classical past is thus gay culture’s central origin myth, and its representation offers far more information about the culture that appropriates the classical past then it does about that past itself. In tracing this trajectory of the classical nude across history, this show concentrates on four major periods: Antiquity, the Renaissance, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the modern/contemporary periods.

This exhibition at the ONE Archives Gallery & Museum is a condensed preview of a groundbreaking exhibition that will open at the Leslie Lohman Museum in New York in October 2014. Presented by: ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

ONE Archives Gallery & Museum

626 N Robertson Blvd.

West Hollywood

Admission - Free

www.one.usc.edu  

June 28, 2014 from 6-9 pm. This exhibit contains nudity.

Parking is free for the first hour before 6:00pm at a parking garage located at the end of El Tovar Place.