Is anal art sexy, or is sex in art anal?

Well, it really goes "Is anal sex legal, or is legal sex anal?"
Thats the neon punchline to the exhibition 'Seduced: sex in art from antiquity to now'.

With an impressive line-up of artists covering art to commercial work, it seemed like a talk to queue up in line for even if the tickets were booked out 'ages ago'. And that's what I did.
Waiting in line in the cold winter night with a bunch of art antennaed students, including an amicable 'James' who seemed to think we would get in without a whisker of doubt. Again we did.
And then it started .

They played k buxey's... i dont remember the name of this apparently provocative piece but it had to do with her daringly whispering her proclivity to big black cocks,cocks,cocks and her big black boy saying that he had never seen a more beautiful white ass like hers ever before,before,before.

Before I was beginning to think that 'cock' really had a more metaphoric suggestion, and that this whole declaration of racial, sexual independence was more than the fact that black nipples and cocks were pepperoni on her pizza, it sadly ended.

She later mentioned how people misconstrued her piece for reinforcing racial prejudice which is a very 'no wonder' situation than anything else. Frankly she seemed completely out of her depth, almost with an extras bravado at getting into the final eleven.

So well what is this basically? Two very cool guys shaping popular culture crash landed into a congregation of academic intellectual serious minded folk and ended up making them look like Neanderthals inspecting their stones over and over again without really shaping them to make their tools.
Chris Cunningham and Joseph from Agent Provocateur, both opposites really, Chris working for himself and the higher creative pursuit, and Joseph really working to make his bucks,but both with a nonchalance that made this intellectual prancing seem shallow.

An indignant audience member stood up and asked Joseph defiantly 'wasn't it just a supermodel 'Kate Moss' stripping in that video?', that Martin Kemp and Martina Wallace included as art?
So Joseph turns nonchalantly at her, puts his foot up, rests it on the other, nods casually and says 'yeah'! And the crowd was in splits!

So that typically was the vein of the talk with two smart guys among a bunch of intellectual pseudo-liberals trying to make art interesting by getting sex into it and sex boring by getting it into art.
Martin Kemp,the curator, seemed to be an academic intellectual conservative claiming to be a self professed professor of pornography, though failing miserably.

And Chris Cunningham, for whom to hear I actually came to the talk, wearing a dull blue sweater and jeans sat with one leg over the other head hung to one side, occasionally changing direction, and as the talk went on would quietly retreat into his long hair.

An except from the debate:

An English woman from behind yells with as much bravado as she could muster ' It was an exhibition of cocks!'
Aghast Kemp exclaimed 'That's bollocks! Thee are many more female genitalia although they are usually V shaped hairless mounds disappearing between their thighs!
Kr Buxey says 'I think actually that there were more penises.'
Kemp with incredible gusto pronounces ' FINE! LETS HAVE A COUNT!'

At this point the hermit in his forest of hair, Mr. Cunningham, peeks out of his jungle and smiles a whisper of a smile.

So we all know sex sells.
But sex under the guise of art?
Maybe not.