Banned to the under aged the exhibition which includes 41 minute “Blowjob” by Andy Warhol, showing a mans face as he is getting head and “llona on Top by Jeff Koons. London's Barbican cultural centre open to the public from Oct 12- January 27 "It's a journey of 2,500 years of sex through the eyes of the greatest artists," states gallery head Kate Bush. The first item on display is a 50 centimeter plaster fig leaf which was used to hide Michelangelo’s “David’s” small penis from Queen Victoria in the 19th century. The exhibition is "bold but not pornographic," said Martin Kemp, one of its co-curators.
"It shows how different cultures have dealt, through art, with this very basic, universal human theme: sex," he added. "Pornography is uni-dimensional -- it does not explore human emotions or relations." "Each of the creations has been censored at some point," said curator Marina Wallace, adding: "All is in the degree of acceptability at a certain moment in time."
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