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Brown men are fearless, funny and sexy: Salman Toor on clubbing, queerness and New York's Muslim moment
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Brown men are fearless, funny and sexy: Salman Toor on clubbing, queerness and New York's Muslim moment

Salman Toor, the 43-year-old Pakistani American artist, is completely rewriting how we see queer south Asian men - placing them front and centre in his richly painted worlds instead of pushing them to the margins. His vibrant oil paintings capture brown protagonists hanging out in bars, dancing at parties, and living their full lives, drawing inspiration from European old masters and Indian Mughal miniatures in ways that feel totally fresh. Now his work is gaining massive international recognition, with museum shows everywhere and a 1.2 million dollar sale under his belt - and he's bringing a career-spanning exhibition called Someone Like You to London's Courtauld Gallery next month. What excites Toor most is that he's finally making the stories of brown queerness the main narrative, not some side story, and honestly, that's a pretty beautiful thing to witness.
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