“Removing the fig leaf: Barbican’s scholarly sex show, for over-18s only: Exhibition to chart 2,000 years of explicit depiction – from Pompeii to Warhol” Snip:
“A fresco from an ancient Roman brothel, showing couples voluptuously entwined. Aubrey Beardsley’s exquisitely detailed figures, complete with vast erect phalluses. The facial expressions of a man receiving a 35-minute blow job. These are among the sights that will greet visitors to the normally impeccably staid Barbican this autumn, as the London arts centre mounts an explicit exhibition devoted to the sexual act.
So sensitive is the material that only over-18s will be allowed in. ‘It’s not a show for someone to get their rocks off on, but a serious scholarly undertaking,’ said the Barbican’s head of galleries, Kate Bush.
The exhibition will chart more than 2,000 years of sex in art via 250 objects, from ancient Greek pottery to works by Jeff Koons of his porn star ex-wife, La Cicciolina.”
Hey, some of the filthiest, most arousing things I’ve ever seen are “scholarly”. And no, it’s not that Kate Bush. Jeff Koons image via. (thanks, Adam!)
