TOO MUCH - TOO MUCH and then MUSIC TO MY EYES
From my point of view there is nothing quite so boring as one single theme en masse. All white, all black, nothing but ….whatever! Pierre et Gilles Mercury The exhibition that I have tried to go to since it opened has had dissuasive queues and giggling ladies alongside rather bemused gentlemen. Today I was at the Orsay museum at opening time and very surprised by the number of school groups. They couldn’t be going to see "Masculine /Masculine" could they? No, I was relieved, they weren’t! This exhibition has had a tremendous buzz around it. The male nude from the 17th century to today. While it has been quite natural for the female nude to be regularly exhibited, the male nude has not been accorded the same treatment. It is highly significant that until the show at the Leopold Museum in Vienna in the autumn of 2012, no exhibition had opted to take a fresh approach, over a long historical perspective, to the representation of the male nude. However, male nudit