The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, in partnership with leading sexual wellbeing company the Lovehoney Group and its Womanizer brand, has released early data from new nationally representative surveys exploring menopause knowledge, symptom management, medical care engagement, and health disparities among Americans. Phase 1 surveyed of 1,500 American adults aged 18-88, to assess overall… Read more »
Intimate Alchemy: David Levinthal’s XXX Polaroids
Explore David Levinthal’s intimate portraits of dolls that reveal the hidden desires and cultural myths shaping American sexuality. Kinsey Institute Library & Special Collections to Exhibit David Levinthal Artwork and Recently Acquired Dolls from ‘XXX’ Series
Alchemist David Levinthal transforms plastic into XXX flesh
I like to get to the point of an assumed reality, balanced with the knowledge that it is not real. —David Levinthal, 20001 David Levinthal burst onto the art photography scene in 1977 with the publication of Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941–43. The book’s images forecast what would become his signature approach. By… Read more »
Director’s Note: Welcome to Intimate Alchemy: David Levinthal’s XXX Polaroids!
We are thrilled to sponsor this co-curated exhibition featuring incredible photographs at one of IU Bloomington’s prized spaces to experience great art, the Grunwald Gallery of Art in the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design. Great shows emerge from great talent, and there is so much of that to acknowledge and thank here. The… Read more »
Embodied Desires: An Introduction to Intimate Alchemy
Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s groundbreaking research recognized erotica as vital evidence of our sexual experiences. Dr. Kinsey’s sex research library, a cornerstone of the Kinsey Institute, captures a broad spectrum of human sexual experience. Importantly, it reveals collective curiosity in understanding the complexities, challenges, and representations of human sexuality, the human body, and our desires and… Read more »