November 28 2016 - March 1 2017

©George Platt Lynes

The Kinsey Institute and the World Erotic Art Museum (WEAM) present “Protected Beauty,” an examination of controversial ideas about masculine beauty and sexuality in art, on view at WEAM in Miami Beach, Florida through March 1st, 2017. 

Co-curated by Rebecca Fasman, Kinsey Institute manager of traveling exhibitions, and WEAM Director Helmut Schuster, the exhibition features photographs, prints, drawings and paintings created between 1890 and 1982 by well-known artists including Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul Cadmus, Andrey Avinoff, Michael Miksche, George Platt Lynes, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Pavel Tchelitchew and Marcel Vertes - gay male artists whose work had been collected by the Kinsey Institute. This is the first public exhibition of this work.

WEAM (World Erotic Art Museum)

1205 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139

At the corner of Washington Avenue and 12th Street

T: (305) 532-9336

Museum Hours:

Monday – Thursday: 11AM – 10PM
Friday – Sunday: 11AM – Midnight
Closed on the following holidays:
Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.