The Three Graces and porn

It's hard to forget when an art history professor tells his class that so many of those classic paintings of the masters and their nude Three Graces were basically ancient porn. And Sacramento's Mel Ramos' paintings of young, beautiful women draped over or straddling massive packages of brand-name products is its own kind of obscenity. Ramos shows at Archival Framing with Eric Dahlin, a former art student of his who is also a retired art teacher. Dahlin is known for his cartoonish ceramic sculptures of crows and rabbits, and in this exhibition, called Teacher/Student/Teacher, he injects some humor into their connection by replicating Ramos' sexy ladies with Dahlin critters.