Elska showcases the men of LGBTQ Paris

Elska Magazine, a publication dedicated to sharing the bodies and voices of LGBTQ communities around the planet, has put the highlight on Paris for its newest situation. Inside readers can get up near and personal with a cross-segment of beautifully everyday local adult men from one particular of the world’s most famous capitals.

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“It was critical that one particular day we’d make an challenge in Paris, it is just just one of individuals terrific entire world cities,” claims Elska editor and main photographer Liam Campbell. “But it was a very little daunting to tactic a put with this kind of a reputation, and one that evokes so considerably stereotype and expectation. The ‘City of Light’, the ‘City of Love’, the city of rude waiters and mile-extensive museum queues… I made a decision that the ideal way to method Paris was to go devoid of any programs, to just satisfy

Neon and Light Museum popup in River North showcases art form’s ‘positive vibe,’ curator states

Jason Pickleman remembers shelling out a great number of hrs of his childhood peering into the backyard of his upcoming-door neighbor, an avid artwork collector acknowledged to fill his lavish Hinsdale property with neon lights.

“My teenage bedroom missed a zoo of neon,” says the whole-time artist and graphic designer, now based mostly in Chicago. “It was interesting and illuminating and exotic, and it was every little thing I needed art to be. I recall considering that I wished to fill my lifestyle with colored mild.”

For 30 yrs, he has performed just that.

It is that colored gentle that Pickleman will now have on show at the Neon and Gentle Museum, an immersive popup knowledge containing more than 60 skilled neon and gentle-primarily based sculptures by distinguished artists from throughout the place, all housed inside 7,000 square ft of show area in the coronary heart of River North.

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