Breedlove the Beautiful Boy: WW art critic Richard Speer weighs in.

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Mayor Sam Adams in the wake of revelations about his
star-crossed affair with hunk-a-licious Beau Breedlove.
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“Sammy Stays.”
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artists' support of our beleaguered bürgermeister should come as no surprise.
Visual artists, novelists, playwrights, and the like charge themselves with channeling the secret desires that haunt us, and setting those demons loose, where they may effect pathos in the rest of us.
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the Beautiful Boy, the male Lolita whose siren song has transfixed sculptors and painters for millennia
Ancient Greek pottery
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Donatello's David
younger, less ripped David
more famous version
Master Breedlove emerging from the sea
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Perseus with the Head of Medusa
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Caravaggio's sultry Bacchus
Men who chase younger men, or women, or both, are chasing their own vanishing youth and ought to know better.
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray,
Video - The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Thomas Mann's 1912 novel Death in Venice.
We wish a better fate for Mayor Sam,
the mayor, as an act of penance and purification, should be made to don a glitter-spangled crown with the word “CHICKENHAWK” inscribed across it
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