The Museum of Sex, (www.museumofsex.com), dedicated to preserving and
presenting the history and cultural significance of human sexuality, will
open on Fifth Avenue on September 23, with its inaugural exhibition NYC Sex:
How New York City Transformed Sex in America.
NYC Sex (http://nycsex.museumofsex.com) will guide visitors through the city
’s sexual subcultures, beginning with the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825
and continuing to the present, charting New York’s history as a city decried
as a refuge for every conceivable vice, and, conversely, as a relatively
tolerant haven for sexual diversity. The city will be shown to be a bully
pulpit for those who sought to define morality for a broad public, as well
as home to those leading secret lives in the sexual underground.
Presented through six thematic sections, NYC Sex begins with the murder of
courtesan Helen Jewett and the ensuing trial, spurring the city’s first
media sex scandal. The exhibition delves into the histories of
prostitution, white slavery, birth control, fetish, sexual freedom and
obscenity laws. Among recent events, it covers the city’s response to the
AIDS crisis, the Giuliani-era transformation of Times Square, and the
emergence of a new underground.
Stories will be told through diverse historic ephemera and photographs from
private and public collections, including never-before exhibited material
from The Kinsey Institute. Works by photographers Donna Ferrato, Charles
Gatewood, George Platt Lynes, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annie Sprinkle, Harvey
Wang, among others, will be featured.
The Museum has a number of renowned historian advisors, including Dr.
Patricia Cline Cohen, Professor of History, UCSB; Distinguished Professor of
History at CUNY, Dr. Martin Duberman; Dr. Timothy J. Gilfoyle, author of
City of Eros; Joan Nestle, Co-founder The Lesbian Herstory Archives; Luc
Sante, author of Low Life; Dr. Michael Sappol, Curator-Historian, National
Library of Medicine; Director Emeritus of The Kinsey Institute, Dr. June M.
Reinisch; and Pulitizer-prize winning co-author of Gotham, Dr. Mike Wallace.
“New York continues to be the most creatively rich city in the world. To
open a new cultural institution here is an honor and we are privileged to
dedicate our inaugural exhibition to New Yorkers past and present,” said
Daniel Gluck, Executive Director.
Casson Mann, the UK’s foremost consultancy specializing in the design of
contemporary museum exhibitions and installations, is responsible for the
exhibition design.
NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America, the companion book to
the exhibition, offers an engaging oral history of sex in New York City.
The book is published by Scala and distributed by D.A.P.
In its exhibitions, programs and publications, The Museum of Sex is
committed to open discourse and exchange, and to bringing to the public the
best in current scholarship. A portion of ticket proceeds from NYC Sex will
benefit ACRIA (The AIDS Community Research Initiative of America), The
Kinsey Institute and The Lesbian Herstory Archives. For information, call
1-866-MOSEX-TIX or visit www.museumofsex.com.
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kimb giunta
head researcher
the museum of sex
233 5th avenue, suite 3b
new york, new york 10016
tel: 212.689.6337
fax: 646.349.1333
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http://www.museumofsex.com
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