Van Dyck’s work explores the tensions between revulsion and love, depicting an episode from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso, 1580 in which an enchantress named Armida falls in love with her opponent, the hero Rinaldo.

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Salman’s paintings are in my view a weird mixture of very retrograde, post-Impressionist handling,” Currin said. Toor’s painting, as he describes it, is “a pile of laundry filled with things from different parts of my imagination, things that, to me, sum up an exhaustive heap of greed and lust. Somehow, this also makes me feel safe and comfortable, solidifying my context in this culture as a queer man from a Muslim cultural background.Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator and Professor of Fine Arts and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University with contributions by Dorian Keeffe, Collections Care and Exhibition Production Assistant.

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This monograph, produced in conjunction with the artist’s first retrospective exhibition, collects Toor’s most essential works alongside significant new texts, by exhibition curator Naeem and painter Evan Moffitt, that examine the works for both their formal innovations and their influences. I counted fifty-three men and women and five ghosts in “Rooftop Party with Ghosts,” a seventeen-and-a-half-foot-long triptych in which the figures mingle amiably, sip drinks, flirt, argue, smoke, work cell phones, tell jokes, or just enjoy the night air, under a dark sky that is populated with letters from the Persian alphabet. These guys are at the end of a night out, and they’re being rowdy and maybe that’s a Muslim cabdriver who doesn’t like them,” he said. Much has been made of the glowing green auras of Salman Toor’s work: Toor’s palette drapes ordinary moments in a mantle of dramatic tension. This builds on the museum’s commitment to inviting contemporary artists to reinterpret historical works within its holdings, with prior projects by artists such as Tschabalala Self and Stanley Whitney.While he looked for a place to live, he stayed with a former classmate of Sethi’s at Harvard, Alexandra Atiya, in a small apartment on Horatio Street.

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In some paintings, Toor places brown and queer figures in the poses and themes of European art: Toor’s Boy with Neck Chain, 2021 is paired with Jean Honore Fragonard’s Love as Folly, c. In the painting, a bearded man wearing a dark sweater-vest over an orange shirt sits at a table, smoking a cigarette and looking troubled.He didn’t show these for several years, but he kept doing them now and then, and in 2015, when he put a group of them in an exhibition in New York, at Aicon Gallery, he realized that he was onto something. The fantasy of an unknown artist suddenly being discovered so rarely happens, but for Salman Toor, born in 1983 in Lahore, Pakistan, it became his reality.

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Out of a puddle of assorted elements, an arm here, a feather boa there, a string of pearls, emerges a vision of illicit queer desire. The Rose Art Museum fosters community, experimentation, and scholarship through direct engagement with modern and contemporary art, artists, and ideas. The painting, which shows two men dancing in a New York apartment while two others sit looking on, sipping cocktails, has the elegance of a Watteau painting updated to 21st-century life.He was born in Lahore, Pakistan, but he has lived mainly in New York since he graduated from the Pratt Institute, in 2009.