Sex—Facts and Fantasies

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The Deutsches Hygiene-Museum's comprehensive look at fact and fantasy, science and art. The history of sex research is represented by Kinsey and his colleagues with images from the Institute collections. The show runs November, 2001 through August, 2002.

Interwoven Lives: Geroge Platt Lynes and his friends

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The photograph of Alfred Kinsey by George Platt Lynes is part of an exhibition at the DC Moore Gallery in New York. The show, titled "Interwoven Lives: George Platt Lynes and his friends," featured works by Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Pavel Tchelitchew, George Tooker and other artists active in New York in the 1930s and 1940s. Sept. 6 through Sept. 29, 2001

The American Century

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The American Century exhibit is the largest display mounted to date at the Gerald R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 10 - October 17, 1999, with over 500 artifacts, documents, photographs, paintings and costumes from the 20th century. The Kinsey Institute loaned a page from the original manuscript of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female and a photo of Dr. Kinsey editing the galley proofs. Other artifacts included Charles Lindbergh's flight suit, Houdini's handcuffs, and a NASA lunar lander.

Watching from the Wings: Warhol and Dance

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An exhibition at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, February 28 - May 23, 1999. The Watching from the Wings exhibition features the work of Andy Warhol as well as 14 George Platt Lynes photographs on loan from The Kinsey Institute. These photographs of New York City Ballet dancers from the 1930's, 40's, and 50's were part of Lynes' commercial output, and explore the sensuality expressed through dance.

The Kiss: Selections from The Kinsey Institute

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A public exhibition at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts (SoFA) Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, October 23-November 24, 1998. The Kiss Exhibition traces the representation of the kiss in the 19th and the 20th centuries. Spanning a variety of cultures, it includes more than 50 film stills, watercolors, woodblock prints, and amateur and professional photographs. This exhibit was chosen to complement the "Bodily Aesthetics and the Kiss" panel presentation at the American Society of Aesthetics conference at IU in November. It is being produced with support of the Institute, the Friends of The Kinsey Institute, and the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts. View images from The Kiss at the SoFA Gallery's web site. A 24 page catalog featuring 12 images from the exhibition is available for purchase.

Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture

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An exhibition tracing the influence of Freud and psychoanalysis on 20th century culture, October 15, 1998 - January 16, 1999, at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., the Jewish Museum in New York, and international venues. From its archives, The Kinsey Institute loaned the exhibition a manuscript letter (page one and page two) by Freud in 1935 to an American mother concerned about how to respond to her son's homosexuality. The letter was displayed in SECTION TWO, The Individual: Therapy and Theory.

In Visible Light: Photography & Classification in Art, Science, and the Everyday

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An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, March 16 -July 6, 1997, sponsored by Oxford University Press. This photograph of an "Atlas" figure is one of eight photographs from The Kinsey Institute on display. Taxonomy, the science of classification, is the core theme of the exhibition, which ranges from the 19th century to the present. Additional venues for the exhibition were: Inverleith House, Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh December 13, 1997 - Mid-February 1998 Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki March 1 - May 31, 1998 Museum Villa Stuck, Munich June 24 - September 20, 1998 Moderna Museet, Stockholm October 10, 1998 - January 10, 1999 Curator: Russell Roberts

The Art of Desire: Erotic Treasures from The Kinsey Institute

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A public exhibition at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts (SoFA) Gallery, Indiana University, October 24 - December 5, 1997. The exhibition presented the first comprehensive survey of The Kinsey Institute's art and photography collections, and was part of the Institute's 50th anniversary celebration. More than 200 items, ranging from ancient Egyptian, pre-Columbian, and Roman objects to nineteenth-century graphic arts to contemporary photography, are on display. The exhibition features works by well-known artists, including Rembrandt and Picasso, as well as those by anonymous artisans and amateurs. From exquisite Japanese porcelain pieces to fairground souvenirs, the objects in the exhibition attest to the power and pervasiveness of the expression of human sexual desire. A catalog featuring 50 images from the exhibition is available for purchase. See also " The Art of Desire" in the September 1997 issue of Indiana University's online publication, Research and Creative Activity.

Goodbye to Berlin? 100 Years of Gay Liberation

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Eight photographs from The Kinsey Institute's collections were on display at this exhibition, held May 17 - August 17, 1997 at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. The exhibition was sponsored by Schwules Museum.

Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography

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This exhibition, to which The Kinsey Institute contributed this untitled work by George Platt Lynes, examines the way in which gender identity is theatrically constructed in photography. The two venues for the exhibition were: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY February 7 - May 12, 1997 Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA September 17 - November 30, 1997

Gender Affects

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An exhibition at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts (SOFA) Gallery, Indiana University, February 9 - March 8, 1996, of photographs and artifacts from The Kinsey Institute's collections, and works of Mariette Pathy Allen, Janine Antoni, Jan Ballard, Dorit Cypis, Jerome Dunning, Graham Durward, Rachel Lachowicz, Michael Rosen, and Annie Sprinkle.

The Erotic Art of Ukiyo-e: Selections from the Collection of The Kinsey Institute

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An exhibition held at the Indiana University Art Museum, August 17 - 20, 1995, in conjunction with Sexuality and Edo Culture, 1750 - 1850, an international conference sponsored by the East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University. The conference proceedings, Imaging/Reading Eros (1996) can be ordered from the East Asian Studies Center.

George Platt Lynes Exhibition

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An exhibition of 130 of Lynes' original vintage gelatin silver prints at the following venues: The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York September 13, 1993 - October 31, 1993 Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (Florence), Italy Spring 1994 Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University- Bloomington Fall 1994 The exhibition of photographs from The Kinsey Institute was accompanied by the publication of George Platt Lynes: Photographs from The Kinsey Institute, by James Crump (Little, Brown, 1993).

Selections from the Collections of The Kinsey Institute

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A private exhibition of twenty-seven works from the art and artifact collections, held at The Kinsey Institute, November 29, 1990 - May 30, 1991. Works were presented in two categories: European and American Art, 1800-1965, and Art of Oceanic, African, and Pre-Columbian Cultures. The Institute also published an accompanying exhibition catalog.

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