Gay Secrets of the MFA 2016 - Feb. 24 - SOLD OUT
Come explore the MFA's gay side with Professor Andrew Lear!
In art circles, it is well known that Boston's MFA has the world's greatest collection of same-sex Classical art, a collection started by the great early 20th century gay collector Edward Perry Warren, also the owner of the British Museum's Warren cup. It is less well known that the MFA's collections are extraordinarily rich in LGBT art of other cultures as well. On this tour, we will explore the Classical collection and also see LGBT art ranging from a Renaissance cruising scene to an intersex figure that (we bet) you've never noticed in a famous Impressionist canvas.
Andrew Lear is the foremost expert on same-sex love in ancient Greek art. In the last few years, he has started Oscar Wilde Tours (http://oscarwildetours.com) a company dedicated to showing travelers the gay past. He spoke to the HGSC in November 2014 on LGBT history at the British National Portrait Gallery, and he led a "Gay Secrets of the Metropolitan" tour for the All Ivy GLA in February 2015.
Professor Lear offered this special tour of the MFA to the HGSC last May and is offering it again this year due to popular demand. We hope you can make it!
When: Wednesday February 24, 2016 at 6 pm.
Where: Meet inside in the Carol Vance Wall rotunda (entry is free on Wednesday evenings).
Price: $20. You can reserve/prepay by clicking here. The event is password-protected; the password is HGSC.