![]() 21 August 2022 at NGV International, Melbourne. ![]() Installation view of ‘Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection’ featuring Leigh Bowery, The Metropolitan, c. Works by artists who identify as queer are featured alongside artists who lived in times when such identification was not possible, as well as works by non-queer artists that have a connection to queer histories. A broad sweep of history is reflected in objects from Ancient Greece to fin-de-siècle dandyism and emerging 20th-century queer activism such as Gilbert Baker’s rainbow flag (first flown during San Francisco’s 1978 Gay Freedom Day Parade) and iconic costumes by Melbourne-born artist Leigh Bowery. ‘Queer’ features more than 400 works curated by an interdepartmental team at NGV. The results can be seen in ‘Queer: Stories from the NGV Collection’, the largest queer exhibition ever mounted in Australia. What began as a research project by curators following the controversial national plebiscite on gay marriage in 2017 has sparked an institution-wide reappraisal of its collections. The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne, has unveiled a major new show examining and revealing how queer stories can be told through art.
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