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JERRY SALTZ’S FIVE SEXY
ARTWORKS AT THE MET
Sept. 24, 2010
(Send your selections to artcritic@nymag.com)
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Greek Phallus Vase (550-500 BC)
What better way to store perfume than in this cute terra-cotta penis with testicles and pretty painted pubic hair?
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Papua New Guinea Headdress Effigy
(late 19th-early 20th century)
This human female figure made from bark cloth, bamboo and leaves, with arms, legs and a sensually shaped vulva, looms over you like some kind of alien being and casts a spell
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Lorenzo Lotto, Venus and Cupid, ca. 1520s
A nude Venus caresses one of her breasts and squeezes a flower petal between her legs while Cupid urinates on her. You tell me what it all adds up to
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Roman Cameo Cup Fragment with Lovemaking Scene
(First Half of First Century A.D.)
We don’t know if the figures on this super-sexy glass drinking cup are deities, mythological, or human, but the rear-entry scene speaks for itself
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Section of a Portable Linga with Shiva and Parvati, India (7th Century)
If Jeff Koons had made this penis with a head carved on it and cast it in steel, who knows where he’d be by now
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