Painting Porn
Zak Smith: Artist, Writer, Fucker

ART and pornography have had a long and rocky relationship. The economics have always made sense — painters from Caravaggio to the Impressionists have used sex workers as models because they were affordable and willing to pose in ways that women in straight society would consider inappropriate.

Treacherous Flesh
Howard Fox Holds Forth On Sex And Art

LAST October I attended Howard Fox's lecture "Treacherous Flesh: The Body in Contemporary Art" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. I was expecting the unexpected, taking into account Fox's highly credible arts background (LACMA's curator of contemporary art for 23 years and at the Hirshhorn Museum before).