{"id":521,"date":"2009-05-05T14:46:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T21:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/05\/what_is_a_gay_aesthetic\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T14:46:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T21:46:43","slug":"what_is_a_gay_aesthetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/05\/what_is_a_gay_aesthetic.html","title":{"rendered":"What is a gay aesthetic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interest in wallpaper?<\/p>\n<p>A few days before he died, Oscar Wilde said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinclassics.co.uk\/nf\/shared\/WebDisplay\/0,,49171_1_10,00.html\">The wallpaper won.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ireallyshould.com\/index.html\">Kelly Mark<\/a> is interested in wallpaper &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/Kellymarkwallpaper2-6007.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/Kellymarkwallpaper2-6007.html','popup','width=320,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/Kellymarkwallpaper2-thumb-300x375-6007.jpg\" alt=\"Kellymarkwallpaper2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/span>&#8211; and I am interested in Kelly Mark. Sexual identity conclusions? Fortunately for the unruly and revitalizing complexity of art and life, there aren&#8217;t any. Yet we know gay art when we see it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesharrisgallery.com\/Artists\/Jeffry%20Mitchell\/Mitchell.htm\">Jeffry Mitchell<\/a>: <i>Good Council<\/i> and <i>Good Council (on cracked ice)<\/i>. Click to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/jeffrymitchellbusstop-6010.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/jeffrymitchellbusstop-6010.html','popup','width=350,height=466,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/jeffrymitchellbusstop-thumb-300x399-6010.jpg\" alt=\"jeffrymitchellbusstop.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"300\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/jeffrymitchellconsel-6013.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/jeffrymitchellconsel-6013.html','popup','width=450,height=337,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/assets_c\/2009\/05\/jeffrymitchellconsel-thumb-300x224-6013.jpg\" alt=\"jeffrymitchellconsel.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>As gay American founding father poet Walt Whitman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.illinois.edu\/MAPS\/poets\/s_z\/whitman\/song.htm\">put it long ago<\/a>, <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do I contradict myself?<br \/>\nVery well then I contradict myself,<br \/>\n(I am large, I contain multitudes.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interest in wallpaper? A few days before he died, Oscar Wilde said: My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has to go. The wallpaper won. Kelly Mark is interested in wallpaper &#8211; &#8211; and I am interested in Kelly Mark. Sexual identity conclusions? Fortunately for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}