Even though we’re happy living in this digital age, it’s nice to know that if Fleshbot had been around some 2000 years ago, we still would have had plenty of naughty material to blog about. (Or carve into big stone tablets about?) So when a straight-laced British museum like the Barbican in London wants to put on a show titled “Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now,” the hard part isn’t finding centuries-old smut to showcase, it’s finding a place to put it all.
When “Seduced”—which is erroneously billed as the “first ever mainstream exhibition devoted to sex”—opens this Friday, it will feature everything from classical Roman artifacts to ancient Japanese paintings to modern day photographers like Jeff Koons and Nan Goldin. The moral of the story: Pervs have always been with us, so take care of that copy of “Debbie Loves Dallas” because you never know … it might be in a museum some day.
· “The art of seduction: sex through the ages, from every possible angle” (story + slideshow @ guardian.co.uk)
Previously: The Best Of Swedish Erotica – In London, “The Naked Portrait” @ Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Touring London’s Sex “Theme Park”
