Queering the Collection: Jonathan Katz, 15 November | Event in Baltimore | AllEvents

Queering the Collection: Jonathan Katz

The Walters Art Museum

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Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 03:00 pm

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600 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD, United States, Maryland 21201

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Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 03:00 pm to 04:00 pm (EST)

600 N Charles St, Maryland 21201

600 Washington Pl, Baltimore, MD 21201, United States

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Queering the Collection: Jonathan Katz
Explore From Gérôme to Monet: Stories from the 19th-Century Collection in Hackerman House at 1 West Mount Vernon Place with Jonathan Katz, a trailblazing queer art historian, curator, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

By the last half of the 19th century, the art movement of Classicism became the most acceptable mode for addressing the erotic by allowing Northern European sexual fantasies to be visualized through depictions of Greek myths. But Classical culture’s permissiveness of same-sex desire was controversial, so artists such as Alma Taddema instead sought to “straighten” up the Classical past, as in his oil painting Sappho and Alcaeus from 1881. In this talk, Katz addresses how queerness often manifested more as an absence than a presence.


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Queering the Collection: Jonathan Katz, 15 November | Event in Baltimore | AllEvents
Queering the Collection: Jonathan Katz
Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 03:00 pm