Seduced: Art & Sex from Antiquity to Now

A review in the morning Times prompted me to seek out the Barbican - 'Seduced: Art & Sex From Antiquity to Now' features about 250 works spanning more than 2,000 years. They include salacious fragments from a Pompeii brothel wall, little-known depictions of sex by Turner, Rodin and Picasso, and Andy Warhol’s Blow Job, a short 1963 film of a man receiving fellatio. Fleshed out with risqué illuminated manuscripts from India, eye-opening Renaissance paintings, pornographic Japanese woodcuts and artefacts from the 500,000-item collection of Alfred Kinsey, the celebrated sexologist, the exhibition sets out to investigate the shifting boundaries of sexual taste and frankness. Couragous and intelligent, the show included some amazing works of art...