Art on Uránia

Greek Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Becomes an Escape Room About Fascist History and Zak Kostopoulos

Thu, 07 May 2026 12:00:00 +0400

At the 61st Venice Biennale, Greece is represented by artist and architect Andreas Angelidakis with the installation Escape Room . In the Greek Pavilion, he brings together an S&M club aesthetic, the building’s 1934 history, Plato’s allegory of the cave, and the memory of Zak Kostopoulos, the Greek-American LGBT and HIV activist and drag artist known as Zackie Oh.

Publishing Triangle Honours Leading LGBTQ+ Books of 2025 in New York

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0400

At the 38th annual Publishing Triangle awards at The New School in New York, the organisation honoured leading LGBTQ+ books published in 2025, along with authors, editors, and cultural institutions working in queer literature. As Gay City News noted, the evening was shaped by the idea that every such book can function as an act of resistance.

South African Deputy Minister Visits Site of Ottawa’s Future Thunderhead Monument

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0400

South African Deputy Minister Mmapaseka Steve Letsike visited the Ottawa site of the future Thunderhead memorial, which is being created as a national monument commemorating discrimination against 2SLGBTQI+ people in Canada. According to the organisers of the Ottawa Civic Space Summit , Letsike was in Canada for the event held from April 21 to 23.

Three Ottoman Homosexual Miniatures from the Manuscript of Atâyî's Poems

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0300

For the modern reader, the Ottoman Empire often appears as a strict conservative world. However, surviving documents reveal a much more complex picture. One such piece of evidence is a richly illustrated 18th-century manuscript containing the poems of the Ottoman poet Nev’îzâde Atâyî. This book features miniatures depicting homosexual subjects.

Two Scenes of Sex Between Men in the Etruscan Tomb of the Chariots

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0700

Who Were the Etruscans

The Etruscans lived during the 1st millennium BCE in the region of Etruria – the territory of present-day central Italy. They had their own cities, religion, language, and a sophisticated culture. Early Rome developed alongside the Etruscans and under their influence.

The Hermitage's 'Amorous Couple': An Iranian Painting with Gender Ambiguity

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:45:37 +0700

The painting Amorous Couple is an anonymous early 19th-century Iranian work from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, inventory number VP-1156. It is painted in oil on canvas and measures 131.5 × 77 cm. Museum descriptions date it to the early 19th century.

Homoeroticism of the Victorian Era: Male Intimacy in Photographs from the 1850s–1890s from the Herbert Mitchell Collection

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:45:37 +0700

The photographs below are mostly amateur studio portraits from the second half of the 19th century, roughly from the 1850s to the 1890s. In them, men pose in close physical contact: embracing, holding hands, placing a hand on a shoulder or on a knee.

Andrey Avinoff: A Russian Émigré Artist, Gay Man, and Scientist

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:45:37 +0700

Andrey Avinoff was a Russian entomologist and artist, and a friend of Alfred Kinsey. He was a collector, a connoisseur of beauty, and a gay man, yet he never made his sexuality public. After the Revolution in 1917, Avinoff left Russia for the United States. His homoerotic watercolors were published only in the 21st century.