Erotica, Feminism and Film.
Sometimes I really think that the art institutions of this country all work together. As if the current coincidence of BBC4's Comics Britannia season (which is awesome by the way) and Comica '07 wasn't enough, everyone is now getting a bit crazy over sex.
Soon at the Barbican gallery you'll be able to see their new exhibition "Seduced. Art and Sex from antiquity to now." They don't just promise such famous artists as Picasso, Jeff Koons and Rembrandt, but also a few less well known names including one of my favourite photographers ever - Nobuyoshi Araki. Wherever I live, the first thing I put on the wall is a torn and battered copy of his Erotic Geisha eating a Melon.
Meanwhile the ICA is just starting a short season of swedish erotica, which is something that you might not otherwise see if you're a nicely brought up girl like me. With some old fashioned sexploitation on the bill, it's the perfect opportunity to get your alternative cinema head on, just in time for Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Grindhouse double bill.
At the Soho Theatre though, if you prefer to talk about sex than see it, then Zoe Margolis, author of "Girl with a One Track Mind" and Rowan Pelling (The Erotic Review), will be talking about sex, blogs and feminism for a one off lecture called Rude Girls.
But that's not even all of it! As the Tate gears up for a serious exhibition of Louise Bourgeois' intense, conceptual, beautiful and sometimes puzzling work, they are also adding a programme of Germaine Dulac's early surrealist films to their collection. And you can't possibly get more sex-obsessed than surrealism.
Katherine Whitehouse
Creative Director
Soon at the Barbican gallery you'll be able to see their new exhibition "Seduced. Art and Sex from antiquity to now." They don't just promise such famous artists as Picasso, Jeff Koons and Rembrandt, but also a few less well known names including one of my favourite photographers ever - Nobuyoshi Araki. Wherever I live, the first thing I put on the wall is a torn and battered copy of his Erotic Geisha eating a Melon.
Meanwhile the ICA is just starting a short season of swedish erotica, which is something that you might not otherwise see if you're a nicely brought up girl like me. With some old fashioned sexploitation on the bill, it's the perfect opportunity to get your alternative cinema head on, just in time for Quentin Tarantino's upcoming Grindhouse double bill.
At the Soho Theatre though, if you prefer to talk about sex than see it, then Zoe Margolis, author of "Girl with a One Track Mind" and Rowan Pelling (The Erotic Review), will be talking about sex, blogs and feminism for a one off lecture called Rude Girls.
But that's not even all of it! As the Tate gears up for a serious exhibition of Louise Bourgeois' intense, conceptual, beautiful and sometimes puzzling work, they are also adding a programme of Germaine Dulac's early surrealist films to their collection. And you can't possibly get more sex-obsessed than surrealism.
Katherine Whitehouse
Creative Director
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