At the Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago, an expansive, century-spanning show charts the period of art when “homosexuality” ...

When did homosexuality become a fixed identity? At the Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago, an expansive, century-spanning exhibition charts the period when “homosexuality” and ...

The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939” is a major contribution to queer art history. Co-curated with Canadian nonbinary art historian Johnny Willis, the exhibit also has a companion catalog book.

At Wrightwood 659, the show hangs a 1935 work by David Paynter, a Sinhalese-British artist, of two young nude men on the beach, redolent of Gauguin’s works but seen as a “sardonic” take on ...