Museum Hotties w/ Jack Shoulder
Listeners!
It’s finally fall, the scorching heat has passed so we can now . . . prepare for historical (biblical?) records of rain!
Speaking of historical (hehe), we’re still cooking up Part 2 of our Hieronymus Bosch x Keith Haring series, BUTT in the meantime we’ve got something else to tide you over: a little jaunt through art history and we cannot stress this enough, it’s so much . . . hotter than you’d expect.
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Joining us is Jack Shoulder — historian, educator, and co-author of Museum Bums — to spill the tea on his new book Museum Hotties or Hotties in Art (depending on which side of the pond you’re on). Yes, that’s really what it’s called.
And this time around it’s not just bums (though, you know, they’re in there). We’re talking artists, muses, myths, and masterpieces that have been turning heads for literal centuries.
Giovanni Battista Moroni, “The Tailor” c.1575.
Museum Hotties features some old faves like David Hockney’s “Peter Getting Out of Nick’s Pool” (1966), Paul Cadmus’ “Jerry” (1931), Giovanni Battista Moroni’s “The Tailor” (c.1575) — plus new ones we didn’t see coming, like Sylvia Sleigh’s “Paul Rosano Reclining” (1974) and Beryl Cook’s “Ladies’ Night” (1981).
Beryl Cook, “Ladies’ Night” 1981.
We also touch on the George Villiers’ leggy “First Duke of Buckingham” (c.1616), Guillaume Geefs’ damned sexy “Le Genie du Mal (Angel of Evil)” (1848), Duncan Grant’s too-hott-for-church Jesus “The Victory of Calvary (or the Crucifixion)” (1941), and Tom of Finland’s actually tame “Untitled” (1964).
Paul Cadmus, “Jerry” 1931.
Guillaume Geefs controversial “Le Génie du Mal (Angel of Evil)” 1848.
We also touch on the George Villiers’ leggy “First Duke of Buckingham” (c.1616), Guillaume Geefs’ damned sexy “Le Genie du Mal (Angel of Evil)” (1848), Duncan Grant’s too-hott-for-church Jesus “The Victory of Calvary (or the Crucifixion)” (1941), and Tom of Finland’s actually tame “Untitled” (1964).
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