Saturday, February 24, 2007

"Fine art with lashings of sex" at the Barbican

Under-18s are banned from x-rated exhibition
Nigel Reynolds
Telegraph
Last Updated: 1:58am GMT 22/02/2007

Called Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now, the exhibition will show more than 250 objects - ranging from statues, carvings and reliefs from classical Greece and Rome to contemporary work by Robert Mapplethorpe, whose photographs of homosexual acts cause controversy whenever they are shown, and images from the American Jeff Koons's Made in Heaven series, showing his former wife, Cicciolina, an ex-porn star and erstwhile Italian MP, having sex.

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