LAS VEGAS—Harry Money’s Erotic Heritage Museum will be hosting a “Black List Exhibition” this Saturday, August 31, featuring music, performances, a book signing, and the debut of new gallery exhibits and spaces.
Scheduled to run from 7 to 11 p.m., the event will celebrate the opening of the new “Forbidden Gallery, Level Two,” which explores the intersection of death, sexuality and true crime. In this exhibit, the museum displays three plastinated specimens, making the EHM the only sex museum that qualifies to display plastinated body parts. This new exhibit allows visitors to dive into the darker aspects of sexuality, with an updated "teachers" wall serving as a warning of the dangers of sexual grooming. The gallery of erotic serial killer art asks how we can determine a person’s propensity for violence based on the art they create, with the centerpiece created by Unrepentant Necrophile. The Forbidden Gallery is also home to one of the only known pieces made by infamous necrophile Karen Greenlee.
Complementing the opening of the Forbidden Gallery, EHM director Dr. Victoria Hartmann will officially launch and sign copies of her new book Forbidden: The Sexual Art of Serial Killers.
Also debuting is a new gallery by Kercrawler Ghost. Exploring themes of demonology and Christian-faith blasphemy, the work displayed here is rendered on oil on canvas and paper-pencil etchings. “My intention through art is to sow a subversive and challenging question, to confront the viewer with images that can awaken a reflection on the ineffable and yet natural force of our own inner desire," Ghost said.
In addition, the museum’s semi-permanent Luis Royo exhibit, featuring the soundtrack of Mitchel Johnson’s “Murder of Fireflies,” is moving to its new 500 sq ft. "Royo Gallery." This refurbished space, featuring state-of-the-art sound and visuals, plus a new seating arrangement, will provide a completely immerse 360-degree sight and sound experience. Johnson is also adding two new songs to the two he has already contributed for the exhibit.
Also taking place during the event will be a concert by Salt Lake City death metal band Chasmlurk, a performance by Auzzy Blood, and a “Blood Burlesque” and un-baptisms performed by Las Vegas’ Battle Born Satanists.
“The Black List Exhibition is a celebration of the subversive, the forbidden and the controversial,” Dr. Hartmann said. “While many institutions keep their distance from art that may offend, the EHM believes these works can give us unique insight into the human psyche, stir thought, and educate. We will feature artists who cover the gamut of art and music, from a sword swallower, to a satanic blood burlesque show, to death metal and dark art, to themes and sounds that allow us to question why some things are off limits ... or should be in the first place.”
The admission fee for the Black List Exhibition is $29. Tickets may be purchased here.
