By now, thanks to the movie Kinsey (2004) and Showtime’s Masters of Sex, most people are well versed in the story of Alfred Kinsey, the Indiana University professor who collected Americans’ individual accounts of their sexual histories in the late 1930s and early ’40s. Within three years of beginning the project he had collected more than 2,000 personal sexual histories, and by 1947 he had founded the Institute for Sex Research. But Kinsey wasn’t just in pursuit of stories and private experiences—he quickly became interested in how human sexuality was represented in toys, antiquities, and art.
“Just being in possession of work like this could have potentially been illegal,” Fasman says. “For the artists themselves, to be creating artwork that—if the police came to your house—you could be arrested for it, it becomes a bigger deal than the homemade sex tapes that people make today.”
Opening reception Fri 8/12, 5:30-8:30 PM 8/12-10/2 Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art 756 N. Milwaukee 312-243-9088art.org Suggested donation $5
