The World Erotic Art Museum, located in the heart of the
Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which ...
Art Deco District, is a museum, library, and education think tank that uses its collection to illustrate the history of erotic art. It contains the collection of
Naomi Wilzig Naomi Wilzig (December 5, 1934 – April 7, 2015) was an American erotic art collector. She was the founder and director of the World Erotic Art Museum in Miami Beach, Florida, which contains her collection.
Early years
Wilzig was one of six ...
.
Collection
The collection includes sculptures, drawings, paintings, and photographs. The collection ranges from
folk art
Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture. Definitions vary, but generally the objects have practical utility of some kind, rather than being exclusively decorative. The makers of folk art are typically tr ...
to the work of famous artists. The Museum shows artwork from artists like
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally cons ...
,
Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...
,
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (; ; ; 11 May 190423 January 1989) was a Spanish Surrealism, surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarr ...
,
Fernando Botero
Fernando Botero Angulo (born 19 April 1932) is a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor, born in Medellín. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent politic ...
as well as
Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Michael Mapplethorpe (; November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. His work featured an array of subjects, including celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-p ...
, Helmut Newton and
Bunny Yeager
Linnea Eleanor "Bunny" Yeager (March 13, 1929 – May 25, 2014) was an American photographer and pin-up model.
Early life and career
Linnea Eleanor Yeager was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, to Raymond Conrad and Linn ...
to name just a few out of more than 4000.
Exhibitions
In 2011 WEAM premiered the first US exhibition of rare erotic
Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (, ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), usually simply known as Rembrandt, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally cons ...
etchings belonging to the Barony of Fulwood Trust, the exhibition was curated by the Baron of Fulwood and Dirleton. In 2012 the curator Helmut Schuster arranged the first solo show of
Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 192023 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. The ''New York Times'' described him as a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-a ...
in Florida in cooperation with the MDM in Salzburg.
Gallery
File:Erotic Chinese porcelain plate 2.jpg, A Chinese porcelain plate, c. 1900, depicting a man having sexual intercourse with a woman with bound feet.
File:Erotic Chinese porcelain plate.jpg, A covered Chinese porcelain plate, c. 1900, showing two scenes of couples having sexual intercourse, one on horseback
File:Erotic Japanese ivory tusk art.jpg, An erotic Japanese carving of an ivory tusk, c. 1900
File:Tairona erotic gold figurine.jpg, A pre-Columbian figurine from the Tairona
Tairona (or Tayrona) was a Pre-Columbian culture of Colombia, which consisted in a group of chiefdoms in the region of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in present-day Cesar, Magdalena and La Guajira Departments of Colombia, South America, which g ...
culture, using the Tumbaga metalworking technique
File:Erotic French figurine.jpg, French painted metal figurine, c 1900, showing a Chevalier seducing his mistress on a campaign drum
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Museums in Miami Beach, Florida
Art museums and galleries in Florida
Art museums established in 2005
2005 establishments in Florida
Sex museums in the United States
Sexuality in Florida