google reader february 3, 2012

I read a article in art21 called "Notes on Silence: A collage" about homosexuality in art. It was a very interesting article. It discusses how aspects of homosexuality such as coming out and staying silent affect art. The art discussed in the article is interesting and brings up the idea of "ekphrasis" which is a Greek word meaning literally "out speech". All of the art in the article exemplifies this idea of out speech or publicly speaking out and coming out. Homosexuality holds such a broad spectrum of things to make art about. I think it's a very politically and emotionally charged subject and I really enjoyed reading this article because the work discussed was extremely powerful and content-based. One of the pieces was featured in time square on one of the electric billboards which give the art this extra purpose of which was very cool. I really liked the article.