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    NGV’s Queer advances a beautiful and challenging reading of the queer gaze in art

    Review: Queer, National Gallery of Victoria Many exhibitions claim to be a landmark show, but few live up to the hype. This one exceeds the hype. Queer is a beautiful, strange, hard-hitting and challenging exhibition where the central concept is like liquid mercury that, on hitting a hard surface, instantly scatters into innumerable droplets – each perfect in itself. It is a show about art made by people who consider themselves as queer. In some cases, it is an exploration of gender and sexuality. In others, it is a journey into a sensibility or an interpretation of existing art made by non-queer artists that can be interpreted through a queer…

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