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Art

The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection

When

June 24, 2009 – Jan 4, 2010

Mondays (10:30am–5:30pm)

Wednesdays–Thursdays (10:30am–5:30pm)

Fridays (10:30am–8pm)

Saturdays–Sundays (10:30am–5:30pm)

Where

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MoMA The Museum of Modern Art (Venue Partner)

11 W 53rd St

212.708.9400

Price

Museum admission: adults $20; seniors $16; students $12; members and children under 16 are free. Admission is free for all visitors on Friday nights from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.

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Surrealist artists, writers, and poets placed persistent emphasis on the power of the imagination to transform the everyday. Beginning in the early 1930s, the production of elliptically erotic, sexually charged objects and sculptures became central to their concerns. This exhibition features some of the most notorious works, including Salvador Dalí's bread-and-inkwell-crowned Retrospective Bust of a Woman (1933) and Meret Oppenheim's fur-lined teacup (1936).