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December 22, 2008 [Recommended]
ART
MARKET WATCH
Artnet - New York,NY,USA
Here, presumably, "passion" does not mean the erotic kind.
Or does it? Garner went on to note that Helmut Newton has now been accorded a
"central position" ...
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December 21, 2008
December 21, 2008
December 20, 2008
December 17, 2008
The Biz:
Risqué business
Mountain Xpress -
Asheville,NC,USA
Inside the store, the walls are lined with “softly erotic” art,
mostly black-and-white photos shot by Ziemer’s business partner, Brian Kirk. ...
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December 12, 2008
The Art of Censorship
By Andi
He portrays the male body in poses that are traditionally reserved for the
female body in art, and I find the paintings beautiful, honest,
vulnerable, erotic but not pornographic, and lovely. - “Pickup” by
Robert Sherer ...
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December 12, 2008
Art
Censorship: Uncovering The Truth
By admin
These examples are from merry old England,
but I hardly have to point out that this type of up-tightness about possibly erotic
art is exculsive to Europe. In the
States, founded by prudish pilgrim Puritans, we have our share of fear ...
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December 12, 2008
Preview:
Shawn Barber and Vincent Castiglia @ Last Rites
By josh
In this exhibit he will unveil his first collection of erotic work.
Vincent Castiglia lives and works in New
York City. The award-winning painter, who literally
puts his life into his art, has mastered the use of his own blood as a
...
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December 08, 2008
Album
cover shows how morality evolves
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
In both cases, the idea that the nudity of the very young children portrayed
was in any way erotic was absurd. The Scorpions cover, however, cannot
credibly ...
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December 07, 2008
Bettie
Page Hospitalized
Cinema Blend - USA
For a handful of years in the late fifties, she came to symbolize photography
and erotic art, or at least the link between the two. ...
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December 07, 2008
December 06, 2008
Poll
Dancing on Wheels
PoleRiders takes the art of poll
dancing on the road. Andrew Katzander is a performance artist who travels New
York City on a bicycle rickshaw, dragging a trailer with an erotic
dancer gyrating on an 8-foot poll.
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December 06, 2008
Student-Run
Sex Magazines Surface Across US
By tothewire
Some publications include erotic fiction and nude or semi-nude
photographs of their students, which creates an uncomfortable balance for
school administrators as students increasingly come under the influence of
sexual material on TV ...
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December 02, 2008
December 02, 2008
Search:
this site all sites
This is Nottingham - Nottingham,England,UK
Stars like Dita Von Teese have made burlesque into an erotic art form.
But you don't have to be a top international model to enjoy it. ...
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December 02, 2008
The
Story Behind Iranian Art
By Marion Maneker
The religious authorities banned depictions of the human body and erotic
scenes, and artists had to submit pictures of their work to the authorities
to get permission to show pieces at local galleries. Mr. Khatami overturned
the rule ...
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December 01, 2008
Aya
Takano - Future, Sadness, Sex
She uses acrylic and diluted gouache paints to
create fictional, erotic, and sullen images featuring thin, big-eyed
Geisha girls– there’sa taste of sex, sadness, and the future all at once.
Perhaps more than any other Kaikai Kiki artist ...
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November 29, 2008
November 27, 2008
Confession/ Povinnost
(Russia, Aleksandr Sokurov, 1998): A ...
By Dina Iordanova
The series of images of the film were erotic art of high order, with
skinny Russian sailors putting their precious bodies on display — snuggling
in their bunk beds, fidgeting with gadgets, looking at books, discussing if
they should ...
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November 24, 2008
November 24, 2008
The
thrill of the nude
guardian.co.uk - UK
As Lyhne has recognised, Rembrandt is erotic. There are two very sexy
paintings by him in the National Gallery - not only the tender bathing scene
she has ...
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November 24, 2008
November 22, 2008
November 22, 2008
November 22, 2008
November 21, 2008
The
naked truth about nudes
guardian.co.uk - UK
The brightness is erotic as well as godlike. What is surely wrong with
Clark's idea of the nude is that it
separates art and life too distinctly. ...
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November 21, 2008
London
prepares for Russian art week
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
The top lot will be a unique collection of 122 erotic drawings for Le
Livre de la Marquise by Konstantin Somov, estimated at $2.2 million-$4.4
million. ...
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November 20, 2008
Sexual
Healing
City on a Hill Press - Santa
Cruz,CA,USA
From holding New York City’s first erotic art exhibition in 1968 to 23
years of Bodysex groups — where women learn about orgasms and how to see
their ...
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November 19, 2008
Something
About Merkley???
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... erotic photographer Merkley??? held the opening party for
his self-published, gorgeous, glossy oversized hardcover book "111"
-- appropriately at art ...
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November 18, 2008
Seattle’s
nonprofit sex club gets tax break
By Cassie
She says her sex center even contributes to the arts by putting on an Erotic
Art Fair every year. Tabitha Blacksmith with the Secretary of State’s
office - admits the state doesn’t delve too deeply into charity applications.
...
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November 17, 2008
November 16, 2008
Art
and Love in Renaissance Italy
By Stephanie(Stephanie)
Toward the end of the exhibit, there are two rooms dedicated to the profane
and erotic arts, and boy was it erotic. In fact, there was a
placard stating that the art might not be appropriate for children.
Anyway, it's all really sexy ...
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November 14, 2008
Optimism's
explicit X-room not for prudes
Courier Mail - Australia
And although many of the 66 drawings are confronting and raw, they are not
overtly erotic. Some of the imagery is exquisitely delicate, even
fragile, ...
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November 14, 2008
November 14, 2008
Minister
denies banning erotic art purchase
Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia
The works are featured in a seminal exhibition opening tomorrow at the
Gallery of Modern Art that was unveiled officially to press this
morning and reports ...
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November 14, 2008
Optimism
in a gloomy time
Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia
The group of pen and watercolour drawings entitled I am flesh comprise
confronting, distorted and erotic representations of women and
children, ...
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November 13, 2008
November 13, 2008
November 13, 2008
Look Who's
Rocking the Casbah
Reason Online - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Naturally, the video is drenched in images of desire, especially the woman's erotic
perceptions of the liaison and of herself. For example, in one imagined ...
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November 13, 2008
Moving
to Russia
By summerseason(Kenneth Silber)
Unfortunately with right people and left people complaining, censoring, or
disallowing art, the power of creativity has become more diminished,
and now one has to be a private collector to view even erotic art! ...
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November 12, 2008
Mail
Art Censhorship
By Hans Braumüller(Ruud Janssen)
... the mail artist Philippe Pissier (pronounced piece-Y¥) was being
subjected to criminal investigation for having mailed a postcard of a
bare-breasted woman, a nipple pierced with a safety pin, to a German exhibit
of erotic mail art ...
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November 12, 2008
Sex
Compared With Sexuality And Creativity
By onemoreoption
I once tried to start an article on Wikipedia about sexuality in art,
so that people could discuss those aspects of art. The article did not
last long because some super-genius editor merged the article into “Erotic
Art,” thinking the ...
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November 12, 2008
November 12, 2008
November 10, 2008
Studio
visit: Zadik Zadikian
Armenian Reporter - Yerevan,Armenia
To make his erotic gold sculptures, he first casts his clay molds in
fiberglass. He makes a gesso undercoat, sands layers of red clay, and then
brushes on ...
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November 8, 2008
ICA:
R. Crumb's Underground
By Michelle(anita)
Another noteworthy reflection upon the exhibition’s layout and design is
Hignite’s conscious decision to arrange Crumb’s erotic drawings below
and above eye level. This placement highlights the voyeurism within reading
and looking at ...
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November 8, 2008
Looking
beyond the stereotypes
StarPhoenix - Saskatoon,Saskatchewan,Canada
... Michelle McGeough in Norval Morrisseau and the Erotic, and
Norman Vorano in an academic essay entitled Inuit Men, Erotic Art all
challenge long-held ...
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November 5, 2008
November 3, 2008
Bruce
of Los Angeles Book Release
By spankzine
Spank give a ten inch salute to these erotic flicks and Bruce — an
icon of gay art and one of the most famous names in physique
photography. The excellent NYC publisher Powerhouse releases Bruce of Los Angeles:
Inside/Outside this ...
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November 2, 2008
Boris
Vallejo Album Art
By Spyder ~(Spyder ~)
His latest works still retain heavy fantasy elements, but lean more towards
the erotic rather than pure fantasy themes. Boris has also illustrated
for album covers, video box art and motion picture advertising.
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October 29, 2008
Sex and
the Lion City
Electric New Paper - Singapore,Singapore
Based in Prague,
Watch For Beauty describes itself as an erotic art magazine which
'shows you natural women nudity in its whole beauty'. ...
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October 29, 2008
October 25, 2008
October 24, 2008
French
postcards
By Ruud Janssen(Ruud Janssen)
... the mail artist Philippe Pissier (pronounced piece-Y¥) was being
subjected to criminal investigation for having mailed a postcard of a
bare-breasted woman, a nipple pierced with a safety pin, to a German exhibit
of erotic mail art ...
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October 24, 2008
Picasso
in Lust and Ambition
New York Times - United States
... and the one people seem to love best, is called “Picasso in Love,”
subtitled “Love (or Lust) as the Wellspring of Art.” The erotic
muse in this case was ...
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October 23, 2008
A
special collection
Oregon Daily Emerald -
Eugene,OR,USA
Corinne created the pen-and-ink "Cunt Coloring Book," photographed erotic
images of lesbians with a solarized process that dissipated voyeuristic
scrutiny, ...
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October 22, 2008
Writing
about Certain Places
By Art Durkee(Art Durkee)
Pornography keeps us separated; erotic art brings us together.
Furthermore, I do not wish to be mistaken as writing a poem of confession rather
than presentation. There is nothing to confess here, as there is nothing to
be ashamed ...
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October 22, 2008
October 22, 2008
October 22, 2008
In
heaven and on earth: Breasts and thighs
Jakarta Post - Jakarta,Indonesia
Yes, Omar's message to the faithful is clear: It's perfectly all right to
enjoy sensuous joys and erotic sexual pleasures -- including group sex
and drunken ...
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October 21, 2008
Sculptor
moulds gran's privates
The Sun - London,UK
She said: “I wanted to do something erotic that would add a sexual
spark to our relationship. I don’t like being 64 but I’m not some idiot
trying to act ...
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October 17, 2008
The
Leeds Erotica Festival
DollyMix - London,UK
So hurrah for the Leeds Erotica Festival
which runs between the 30th October 2008 and the 2nd November. The LEF
promises to bring "erotic art, literature, ...
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October 17, 2008
The
way of all flesh
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
In doing so, of course, they awakened erotic associations that were
absent or muted in the completely unclothed model. In the Ballarat show, ...
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October 16, 2008
October 16, 2008
Beaver
Street Gallery gets edgy with ‘Erotica’
Flagstaff Live -
flagstaff,arizona,USA
Barbara Harton, co-owner of Beaver Street and co-curator of “Erotica,” says
the exhibit “is meant to be a combination of erotic art and humor. ...
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October 15, 2008
October 14, 2008
October 11, 2008
Wein's
world
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA
But if you saw his frankly erotic nude "Phryne Before the
Judges" or the monumental granite goliath "Unity" spanning the
Columbia River, you'd never forget ...
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October 11, 2008
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John
Lennon art exhibit opens in New York
LiveDaily.com - USA
... once was seized by Britain's
Scotland Yard while on display at another exhibit. The current exhibition
also features some of Lennon's erotic drawings.
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October 11, 2008
Sex
on the agenda at IU
The Herald-Times (subscription)
- Bloomington,IN,USA
There will be a talk about sex and religion, a Kinsey Erotic Art
Gallery opening, and a burlesque show — not to mention free HIV testing. ...
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October 11, 2008
Street
Painting Florence, Italy
By Kelly Borsheim(Kelly
Borsheim)
People seemed to love it, although one man told me that it was rather erotic
for street art. Yeah, that would be my undertaking . . . I also met
two very interesting people in the art field that day. There was some
sort of convention or ...
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October 9, 2008
No more live nudes at State Museum
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
Also, the Bank of America Great Art Series occasionally
includes nude photographs, erotic paintings or sculptures
from New York City museum collections. ...
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October 8, 2008
Review: Bokuju Kitan / Marvellous Tales Of Black Ink
Londonist - London,UK
Nobuyoshi Araki has a worldwide notoriety for photographing beautiful women in
intricate and perilous bondage (Kinbaku) in the name of art. ...
October 6, 2008
Gallery: Erotic Art to be displayed in
Fenland
Wisbech Standard - Wisbech,England,UK
Mr Savage said: "Erotic art is a very interesting form
of art to be in. It explores ways in which people interact
with each other and a secretive side to ...
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October 2, 2008
Facts about chocolates!
By Zap Info(Zap Info)
Erotic art and literature were inspired by the seductive
substance. Casanova, the infamous womanizer, made a habit of drinking
chocolate before his romantic escapades. Even today, romantic lore commonly
identifies chocolate as an ...
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September 30, 2008
September 27, 2008
The Sex Problem, Past and Present
By stephenhopewell
To be surrounded by erotic art in one’s daily life, as were
the people of Pompeii,
is not necessarily a wholesome thing. Anglo-American culture’s relatively
restrained sexual culture may be linked to some of its unique virtues. ...
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September 25, 2008
Sex Column
Ontarian - Guelph,ON,Canada
This quote is particularly true for erotica – an art
form that isn't necessarily modelled after real life. Unless you lead a life
filled with kinky sex in ...
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September 10, 2008
September 10, 2008
Thoughts
on Erotic Art
NY Arts Magazine - New York,NY,USA
What are the positive and negative aspects of erotic art in American
society? Or does American culture dictate the overuse of the erotic? ...
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September 10, 2008
Artist
cleared of insulting Hindu faith
guardian.co.uk - UK
"Does the sentiment of the petitioner get scandalized by the large
number of photographs of erotic sculptures which are in
circulation?" the judges asked. ...
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