NEW YORK, NY.- Ahead of the 15-year-anniversary of the Museum of Sex, owner and founder Daniel Gluck announced the appointment of Serge Becker as the new creative and artistic director.

Becker has spent the last 35 years at the intersection of the arts and social life of New York City, while building an iconoclastic career spanning many genres. Getting his start as an art director at seminal 80's art club Area, Becker then went on to help create some of the city's most iconic hospitality and entertainment venues such as Joe's Pub, La Esquina, The Box, Miss Lily's chief among them. A creator of hospitality and entertainment venues, Becker is known as part of a vanguard of innovative outsiders that brought a fresh look and theatrical feel to their places, and redefined the role of restaurants and nightlight to the city. These venues were generally the first outposts in previously undeserved neighborhoods, and became the original building blocks of the downtown renaissance. Becker was also a partner in the multi-disciplinary design office Can Resources and the Publisher and Editor in Chief of the cult publication List Magazine.

A Swiss trained creative director, Becker will take charge of an ambitious 4 year plan, which includes the broadening of the curatorial scope of the institution, as well as a major architectural expansion of the building.

In addition to presenting an impressive roster of rotating exhibitions, Becker will help develop a robust program of lectures, screenings, workshops, and performances to fulfill the museum's core educational mission, which is to preserve and present the history, evolution and cultural significance of human sexuality and commitment to open discourse to the misunderstood topic through the best in current scholarship.

With a new ad campaign director by Becker already starting to impact visibility, traffic at the Museum is expected to surpass half a million by 2020. Major renovations are in progress to accommodate this capacity with an additional two floors and three galleries added by end of 2017.

MoSex will look to enter into collaborations with several established institutions such as Musee d'Orsay, Japan Society, Morbid Anatomy Museum, VICE / Creators, and the Storefront for Art and Architecture to help present the best in arts, science, social anthropology, technology, media and design.

Upcoming exhibitions include a comprehensive retrospective of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, an immersive musical VR experience by DJ Diplo and director Ryan Staake, Creator's NYFW "The Female Gaze", and the 4 story tour de force group art show investigation of the carnal origins of the carnival and the fairground "Super Funland".