For the past year, the NYC’s Museum of Sex hosted “Funland,” an erotic fairground imagined by design duo Bompas & Parr which featured, among other things, a penis derby racing game and bouncy boob castle (now part of the museum’s permanent collection). This year, Amsterdam-based studio (and major force in design) Droog changes the scenery with an intimate, playful campground. Within, visitors are invited to …
In her search for “ecstatic unity,” celebrated artist Dorothy Iannone creates beautifully subversive works that boldly explore sexual liberation and feminist ideologies. Her progressive image+text style is at once surprising, thoughtful, inspiring, profane, humorous and taboo-shattering. This brilliant compendium binds together a half-decade of familiar and rarely scene works for an in-depth look at Iannone’s signature style.
It all begins with Luis Buñuel. The Spanish filmmaker’s 1977 masterpiece not only lends its name to a new group exhibition opening at NYC’s Luxembourg & Dayan gallery, but also the inspiration behind unifying disparate artists with a universal subject. In the film “That Obscure Object of Desire,” obsession leads to exploration, fetishization and submissiveness. The group show indulges all of the above, but charts …
