{"id":219384,"date":"2025-10-17T08:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219384\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:56:12","slug":"erotic-art-owned-by-beth-rudin-dewoody-opens-at-miamis-museum-of-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/219384\/","title":{"rendered":"Erotic Art Owned by Beth Rudin DeWoody Opens at Miami&#8217;s Museum of Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tOne year after New York\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/museum-of-sex\/\" id=\"auto-tag_museum-of-sex\" data-tag=\"museum-of-sex\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Museum of Sex<\/a> opened an outpost in Miami\u2019s Allapattah neighborhood, the boundary-pushing museum is hosting an exhibition of erotic artwork owned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-collectors\/top-200-profiles\/beth-rudin-dewoody\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ARTnews Top 200 collector<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/beth-rudin-dewoody\/\" id=\"auto-tag_beth-rudin-dewoody\" data-tag=\"beth-rudin-dewoody\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beth Rudin DeWoody<\/a>. \u201cHard Art: Unruly Selections from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection\u201d opens today and is on view through May 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe show includes sculptures, paintings, collages, photography, and installations from the 1930s through the present by a number of well-known artists, among them Sally Mann, Judith Bernstein, Marilyn Minter, Dash Snow, and Derrick Adams.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-1471670381.jpg\" alt=\"BARCELONA, SPAIN - MARCH 06: Marina Abramovic presents &quot;7 Deaths of Maria Callas&quot; at Gran Teatre Del Liceu on March 06, 2023 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Mario Wurzburger\/Getty Images)\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miaminewtimes.com\/arts-culture\/miami-museum-of-sex-debuts-exhibition-of-censored-art-40491459\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Miami New Times<\/a> referred to DeWoody as \u201csomething of a Keeper of the Erotic Flame through ever-changing social mores, perspectives, cultural evolutions, and political persecutions.\u201d DeWoody has been collecting art since she was a tween (at the time it was Beatles paraphernalia, not seven-foot pink dildos or painting of women flashing the FaceTime camera with crazy eyes while vaping, just two examples of pieces in the show) and has curated exhibitions at museums and galleries in New York, New Orleans, Chicago, London, and Vermont. \u201cFor me, always, the frustration is I\u2019d like more of the work to get out there,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-collectors\/top-200-profiles\/beth-rudin-dewoody\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DeWoody once told\u00a0ARTnews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAnd now, thanks to the Museum of Sex, more outr\u00e9 subset of her well-regarded collection is definitely getting out there. \u201cHard Art\u201d is co-curated by Maynard Monrow and Laura Dvorkin, both of whom are in-house curators for DeWoody\u2019s eclectic collection. Tam Gryn, managing director of the Museum of Sex, described \u201cHard Art\u201d to the New Times as \u201cbold, hilarious, important, beautiful . . . [DeWoody is] ahead of her time and unpredictable. I admire the way she has been devoted to collecting work from erotic perspectives no one else has.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One year after New York\u2019s Museum of Sex opened an outpost in Miami\u2019s Allapattah neighborhood, the boundary-pushing museum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,105731,49,48,356,75,105732],"class_list":["post-219384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-beth-rudin-dewoody","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-museum-of-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}