Sat, Nov 21
|170 Forsyth St
Hardcore Diaries - Dustin Pittman
Where were you in 1972? Join us for the opening reception of Dustin Pittman's Hardcore Diaries, voyeuristic installation featuring the NYC PREMIERE of the 1972 experimental film “THE PLEASURE CHEST”
Time & Location
Nov 21, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
170 Forsyth St, 170 Forsyth St, New York, NY 10002, USA
About the event
About the exhibition
Hardcore Diaries - Dustin Pittman
Curated by Dustin Pittman and Danielle Eden
In the early 1970’s, sexual liberation was no longer just an idea. It was a revolution. Against the backdrop of a Nixon-era America, multi-disciplinary artist - Dustin Pittman - turned his lens toward the original sexual aids store, the Pleasure Chest, capturing a moment when sexuality, identity and personal freedom were being boldly redefined. There was a time when the only place to buy a sexual "novelty" was a magazine store usually located in the NYC seedy Times Square district. The only alternative was to answer one of those lurid ads found in the last pages of pulp magazines. Everything changed in September of 1971, when Duane Col-glazier and Bill Rifkin opened the PLEASURE CHEST, the famed erotic store in New York City's Greenwich Village.
In 1972 Dustin Pittman brought his film cameras to document…