LGBTQ Secrets of the Met Museum Tour • NYC

Schedule

Sat Dec 14 2024 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, NY

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Reclaim LGBTQ history hiding in plain sight at the Met Museum with the thoroughly entertaining, Prof. Andrew Lear of OscarWildeTours.com.
About this Event

“LGBTQ Secrets of the Met” is a private tour of the homoerotic treasures from the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.


Professor Andrew Lear, a four-time winner of the Harvard Certificate for Excellence in Teaching, will decipher the meanings of symbols, poses, and context while telling you the low-down on what's really going on. For Lear’s peerless insights on just one of the works in the Met’s unrivaled collection, visit The Gay and Lesbian Review. Famous artists and subjects appear but so do lesser-known artists and works whose homoerotic charge is often ignored.



During this two-hour private tour, you learn the answers to these and other intriguing questions:


  • Learn why the portrait of “Gertrude Stein” by Pablo Picasso was shocking and scandalous when unveiled in Paris.
  • Discover the complex symbolism in “Portrait of a German Officer," a monumental painting by Marsden Hartley memorializing his lover, who died at 24
  • Decipher the role male ritual bonding played in Pacific Islander society
  • Hear the enduring story of Antinous, a Roman Emperor's lover who went on to become a god after his mysterious death at age 18.


<h4>Join us on a rare opportunity to see the phenomenal museum tour!</h4>
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“It was one of the best trips we have ever taken. Professor Lear is knowledgeable, personable, and funny, and his explanations cover a wide range of topics, including things that get left out in most tours.” — Bennet Marks


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Our Art Historian and Tour Guide:

A four-time winner of the Harvard Certificate for Excellence in Teaching. has taught art history and Classics at Harvard, Columbia, and NYU. Lear is the founder of , the first company to offer tours focused on LGBT history, and the winner of the Travel Industry’s 2016 Travvy Award for best-escorted tour operator, LGBT; and the Luxury Travel Guide’s 2016 LGBT Tour Operator of the Year. in 2021, Lear founded , an educational nonprofit dedicated to raising public awareness of LGBTQ histories and stories.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, United States

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