After videotaping the evidence --- Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio, a 1978 series that includes pictures of
gay sadomasochistic scenarios --- police charged the museum and its director, Dennis Barrie, with pandering obscenity.
Not exact matches
The images in question showed explicit acts of
sadomasochistic gay sex — including shots of men with erect penises and a picture of Mapplethorpe himself with a bullwhip inserted into his anus.
He has filled Luxembourg & Dayan's tony townhouse with installations based loosely on his just - published book, A New Novel (H. Aschehoug, $ 35), a trippy narrative that follows an unflagging artist («B») through
gay clubs, prostitution and the art world (which he especially detests), along the way documenting his insatiable appetite for drugs, steroid - enhanced muscles and sex, often of the
sadomasochistic variety.
There's another gallery of recent work by neo-conceptual artists, including Nayland Blake's
sadomasochistic fantasia with meat cleavers and
Gay Outlaw's tower of skillets made from wax.