Naked in the Museum, IV (yup, still nsfw)
So I am currently doing research on porn and its various collisions and collusions with the world of fine art for a conference in April. I’m really hoping to write an eventual book on the aesthetics of pornography, but at this point, I’m just at the data collection stage. I hope to have much…
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An Argument for a Kinky Education
I should have read Camille Paglia the first time I picked up one of her books, when I was 19.
Sexual Personae. Completed in 1981, but left unpublished – rejected by 7 major publishers until Yale Press picked it up in 1990 – this book could have and perhaps would have radically transformed my…
The Museum as a Space for Arousal
Something I’ve been thinking about since creating this column: What happens when we think about the gallery or museum as a space for arousal? (P.S. for all you art nerds: Let’s avoid for now the obvious differences between the two contexts).
Arousal, as a general term, simply refers to the…
Sex Machine Painting, Continued
See the last installment on Sex Machine Painting.
I’ve been talking to R.S. for over an hour now. I still haven’t seen her paint, although the evidence is all around us. It’s actually quite romantic – this setting of hers – this world she’s managed to manufacture for herself. Like…
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Orgasms, Stacks + Double Rainbow Ecstasy
So it really helps if you haven’t been living under a rock and have already seen the original freak out, but this is still pretty genius.
We have VJ Peter Rand to thank for this tribute to Donald Judd. If you aren’t a fan of Minimalism – and Judd, in particular – this probably won’t have much…
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Naked in the Museum: Part 3 – TD&A sooooo NSFW
Okay – so I realize that this column is called Art + Sex and that to this point, my Naked in the Museum posts have covered simply that: some nakedness. (Bad pun. Sorry. Ish.)
So to convince you that I am not just some sort of pensive, feminist tease I decided to rectify that situation with…
Gangbang Parties and Domina Rooms
Those of you who’ve been reading Art + Sex will recognize this truly lovely reference made in response to Christoph Büchel’s exhibition in the Secession earlier this year.
For those of you who haven’t been following along, Gerald Ebinger – Vienna’s “cultural spokesperson,” was quoted as…
Andy Warhol’s “Blowjob”
Naked in the Museum: TD&A – Part 2
I decided it was unfortunate – and totally inequitable – to only include images of the female nude in my compendium of museum nakedness. Consequently, I’ve taken the liberty of including a new appendage alongside T&A.
“Dick” seemed an important addition.
Sex, Swinging and the Need to Secede
Earlier this year, Swiss artist Christoph Büchel installed a fully functional sex club at the Secession in Vienna. And how, one might ask, does an artist install a sex club?
It seems Mr. Büchel invited the Viennese swinger’s club Element 6, who in turn said that its participation in the…
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