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Moss Roberts photographed by James Bidgood.
I missed this back in January, a great version of the Flandrin pose by James Bidgood, the justly-celebrated beefcake photographer and director of that micro-budget masterwork of gay erotica, Pink Narcissus (1971). The photo was part of a feature commissioned by Out.com which asked notable photographers to present a contemporary [...]

Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velázquez.
The sight of one of Picasso’s many versions of Las Meninas (The Maids of Honour) by Velázquez earlier this week prompts this post. An endlessly fascinating painting whose influence runs through three hundred years of art history. That influence isn’t so surprising if you consider this as a painter’s painting; [...]

Robert Helpmann, Moira Shearer and Leonide Massine; The Red Shoes (1948).
Jack Cardiff, who died this week, was one of the great cinematographers from the postwar era, a period when British cinema was raised for a time to world-class level. His three films for the Archers, aka Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, are masterpieces of Technicolor [...]

Projet pour le ‘Narcisse’ de Paul Valéry (1940).
Photographs by Raymond Voinquel (1912–1994).

Hommage au Bronzino (1940).
• A gallery site | A Flickr set
Via Fabulon.
Previously on { feuilleton }
• Norman McLaren
• Reflections of Narcissus
• Narcissus

Pas de Deux (1968).
News of a theatre piece celebrating the creativity of Norman McLaren, the pioneering Scots (and gay) animator and film-maker, had me searching YouTube again for his work. His short film Neighbours (1952) is very well-known, oft-cited and imitated for its pixillated character movement. No surprise to see it there, then, along with [...]

Untitled (Adrian Kissing) 2007.
The icon of male vanity returns again in a surreptitious form via this photograph by Brandon Herman from a new exhibition, My Vacation with a Kidnapper, which opens today at the Envoy Gallery, NYC, until April 19, 2008. Herman’s photography brings to the surface (so to speak) the homoerotic subtext of [...]

Narcissus by Paul Dubois (1866).
Via a Flickr page of sculpture photography.

Infinity Mirrored Room—Love Forever (1994).
“It is not controversial to describe Yayoi Kusama as Japan’s greatest living artist,” says Hannah Duguid in The Independent. I made a post about Kusama’s artworks in 2006 and now her work is in exhibition at the Victoria Miro gallery, London.
For this exhibition, revered Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has conceived [...]

Previous posts about gay or homoerotic art or artists.

• The art of Robert Sherer

• The art of Goh Mishima, 1924–1989

• The art of Benoit Prévot

• The art of Robert R Bliss, 1925–1981

• The art of Oliver Frey

• The Great God Pan

• Jerry by Paul Cadmus

• The art of Ralf Paschke

• The recurrent pose #26

• The [...]

The Innocents.
A great British actress died this week. She was also something of a movie star in the Fifties, rolling in the surf with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity (1953) and standing up to Yul Brynner in The King and I (1956). Prior to that she starred in two films for Michael [...]

Bobby Looking Out Shuttered Window from Pink Narcissus, mid- to late 1960s.

Blue Boy from Pink Narcissus (Bobby Kendall), mid- to late 1960s.
James Bidgood’s deliriously rich photographs are currently on exhibition at Clampart in New York, and the show includes stills from his classic film Pink Narcissus. Bidgood discusses his work here. And for those of [...]

Infinity Mirror Room—Love Forever (1966/1994).
Mirror, light bulbs, stainless steel, wood.

Narcissus Garden (1966/2002).
Watermall, 2000 mirror balls.

Fireflies on the Water (2002).
150 lights, mirrors and water.

Infinity Mirror Room, Rain in Early Spring (2002).
Since the late 1950s, Yayoi Kusama has used painting, performance, sculpture, and installation to develop a highly personal formal vocabulary that combines repetitive elements such as [...]