Sir Mick Jagger has a place in the British Museum’s new Tantra exhibition – but not thanks to his lothario reputation. The Rolling Stone, 77, is represented in the form of an experimental art film.
He produced Tantra: Indian Rites Of Ecstasy, in the late Sixties and it will be among the first objects visitors to the exhibition will see.
Tantra is associated with sex and “free love” in the West, but the museum says the “radical philosophy” has been misunderstood with “salacious stereotypes”.
Sir Mick’s film is “uniquely nuanced for the time because it isn’t pandering to the stereotypes of Tantra as a cult of ecstasy”, curator Imma Ramos said.