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Spotlight On The Permanent Collection
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Venue: Museum of Sex
Cost: Adults (18+): $14.50
Students and Seniors (with valid ID): $13.50
Our newly redesigned Spotlight Gallery allows our patrons to explore sexuality in a way that is personal and pertinent to their own experiences by presenting a wide array of sexual themes and concepts. This gallery offers a sampling of artifacts drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection of over 15,000 objects, including works of art, clothing, technological inventions and historical ephemera.
The themes currently explored in the gallery are: sex education, sex in art, illustration, anime, kinks, modern commercialized design, photography, sex and technology, the medicialization of sex, representations of gender and identity, as well vibratorsas alternate interpretations of the human body. The exhibition includes works by well known artists such as Keith Haring, Pablo Picasso and Alexis Rockman. Due to popular demand, several key artifacts from the museum’s two most recent exhibitions, Sex in Design/Design in Sex, and Kink: Geography of the Erotic Imagination, are featured in this new space as well as provocative and through provoking installations such as Mike Sullivan’s Sex Lives of Robots and Timothy Archibald’s Sex Machines.
Highlights of the technology collection include Archibald’s portrayal of homemade sex machines constructed from everyday household materials as well as commercial devices registered with the U.S. Monkey RockerPatent Office that prevent, improve or enhance sexual function. The gallery also has an interactive feature where patrons can gently touch both male and female RealDoll torsos. RealDolls, created by Abyss Creations, have gained immense popularity in the media and have most recently been seen on the television show CSI: NY and in the film Lars and the Real Girl. As well as having RealDoll torsos to touch, the exhibition also features both a full length male and a female RealDoll on display.
With the revision of our Spotlight Gallery, we hope to touch on a broader spectrum of themes and present the very best of current sexual scholarship in a playful and educational way.
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Sex Lives Of Robots
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits
Venue: Museum of Sex
Cost: Adults (18+): $14.50
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For more than twenty years Michael Sullivan has worked as an animator, prop fabricator and lighting designer.
The showcased figures “The Creation of Man”, “The Insemination of Lulu 95304” and “Iron Hole” were prepared especially for display in the Museum of Sex. By transforming fashion dolls and figurines through paint and sculpting techniques, Sullivan’s robotic characters become the actors in his pornographic stop animation film,Sex Class Sex Life of Robots, which he describes as “footage of every conceivable sperm transfer device that is performed by robot pornographers and their well lubricated machines.”
Sullivan’s work has been featured in the Tribeca Film Festival, “Transformers” the television show, Peter Gabriel’s “Big Time” video, a short animated EFX for “Star Trek V”, “The Big Bear in the Big Blue House” and “Joe’s Apartment.”
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Action: Sex And The Moving Image
-- Arts - Museum Exhibits, Arts - Installation
Venue: Museum of Sex
Cost: Adults (18+): $14.50
Students and Seniors (with valid ID): $13.50
We live in a visual culture. Everywhere we look we are bombarded with images often to the point of sensory overload. Images shape our desires, the way we think and the manner in which we connect and interact with the world around us. exhibition1Images serve as the driving force behind decisions about what to buy, what to believe, what to value, where to go and which people and relationships are worth our time and energy. These images come flying at us in commercials, music videos, television shows, mainstream film and in Internet spam.It is impossible to ignore the sensuality and sexuality of these images…and why should we?
Action: Sex and the Moving Image opening at the Museum of Sex in March 2007, traces the way sex and sexual imagery have impacted film, television, advertising and more contemporary outlets like the internet while simultaneously creating the multi- billion dollar porn industry and influencing popular art such as film, social standards, mores and behaviors.
Sex on film propelled the development of video technologies such as beta players, VCRS, and DVD players that have brought movies of all types into our homes.exhibition2The Internet, the latest of this stream of technologies, has made sexual imagery more accessible than ever. No matter how much it is discussed, denounced, and demonized sex on film, sex on our televisions, sex on our computer screens and now sex on our mobile devices is here to stay.
Sex, nudity, and innuendo have always been a source of controversy and topics of public discourse and debate. Throughout the history of moving images legislation has affected not only what filmmakers could create, but also what people were “allowed” to see. Sex on film has been banned, censored, edited, and destroyed by those deeming the content to be obscene or immoral. Action: Sex and the Moving Image surveys the history of sex and the moving image over more than 150 years, featuring everything from the subtle sexual metaphors in films such as Dracula (1931) to Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss Song (1971) and other “sexploitation” films of the 1950s to Debbie Does Dallas (1978), Deep Throat (1972) and the best of “porn chic” to contemporary celebrity “home-made” porn such as One Night in Paris (2004). The exhibition aims at providing the tools to become literate in the barrage of sexual driven images in our society.
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