I saw that exhibition! really great.

A Bluesky mod when they see an unclothed male torso

a few hours later and i am still so steamed about this.

it sounds like folks have no control over anything at all.

I posted these and it didn’t let me choose anything about the way it was censored.

while i didn't intend it, it's so weird and depressing to see such a clear illustration of how little our culture's censoriousness and prudery has shifted

120 years later and they're still drawing a discreet decency curtain across queer art

girl, same

"sexually suggestive" what if you sucked my fucking nuts

Bluesky flagging this as nudity i truly hate it here.

Von Stetten, too, wasn't shy about a gay pinup moment, as in his "Wrestlers at Neuilly Fair", his image of gentle male intimacy "Cleobis and Biton" (beyond official reproach, since they're not sleeping they're dead, and not lovers but brothers!), or "Two Sculptors", sneaking in a nude statue beyond.

Courtois also frequently painted his longtime friend, studio-mate and lover, Carl Ernst von Stetten.

Less implausibly muscled than Deriaz, works depicting Stetten (a fellow artist) were less commonly derided as obscene, but their urgent yearning (and Stetten's impishness) still pulse with desire.

Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches.