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Nude performers at NYC museum exhibition complain of being touched by patrons
metronews.ca ^ | April 16, 2010

Posted on 04/16/2010 10:54:08 AM PDT by Willie Green

NEW YORK - Some visitors to a new exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art are being asked to leave because they are touching nude performers.

The performers featured in Marina Abramovic's new exhibition have complained of being pushed, prodded and poked by some patrons.

The museum acknowledges that it has had problems with some visitors touching the live art. It is declining to talk about specific cases, but says visitors caught doing it are escorted out.

The exhibition opened March 14 and presents a view of Abramovic's career over four decades.

It includes nude performers standing in a narrow doorway that visitors can pass through. Elsewhere, a naked woman reclines with a fake skeleton on top of her. Other live performers are clothed.


TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: 2manyperverts; 2muchperversion; 4apevertedworld; 4pervertsonly; liveart; moma; napl; newyork; performanceart; publicnudity; touchysubject
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To: Lucky9teen

3 nuns on exiting the exhibit ....

First nun: All those nude performers - I had a stroke!
Second nun: I had a stroke too!
Third nun: I didn’t touch any of ‘em.


21 posted on 04/16/2010 11:02:11 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Willie Green

22 posted on 04/16/2010 11:02:20 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Nightshift

gnip


23 posted on 04/16/2010 11:02:32 AM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or ...off..)
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To: Willie Green

The most popular exhibit must be the “pull my finger” interactive exhibit.


24 posted on 04/16/2010 11:02:32 AM PDT by montyspython
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To: Willie Green

>> It includes nude performers standing in a narrow doorway that visitors can pass through. Elsewhere, a naked woman reclines with a fake skeleton on top of her. Other live performers are clothed.

(1) Get your naked backside out of the freaking doorway.
(2) I wonder how many people were poking just to see if they were real people.
(3) Being naked in public is bound to draw some unwanted attention ... suck it up.

SnakeDoc


25 posted on 04/16/2010 11:04:25 AM PDT by SnakeDoctor ("The world will know that free men stood against a tyrant [...] that even a god-king can bleed.")
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To: Paladin2
Let me be the first to say: “TTIUWOP”.

More like, TTIUWP.

26 posted on 04/16/2010 11:04:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Willie Green
Dunno, as a responsible pseudo-liberal gagger, I'd first want to ask, "Was it good-touch, or was it BAD-touch? Show me with this little dolly sweetheart"

I hope the 'prodders' were frickin' street bums checkin' out the action....Bwaaaaaahaaaaaahaaaaahaaaaa!

27 posted on 04/16/2010 11:05:56 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: dfwgator

TTIU.


28 posted on 04/16/2010 11:06:37 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: JoeProBono

Buttcrack? They blurred buttcrack? I wanna see the pitcher the dude kneeling down took, by golly!


29 posted on 04/16/2010 11:07:40 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: Willie Green

This IS New York City...

30 posted on 04/16/2010 11:07:47 AM PDT by TruthHound ("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
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To: 13Sisters76

Yours is the best response. Another side of this is that someone in New York gets touched by strangers? Man, you can’t even eat lunch at an outside stand-up diner without
a whole bunch of New Yorkers bumping, poking and prodding you.


31 posted on 04/16/2010 11:08:52 AM PDT by righttackle44 (Is Obama an Irish, Italian or Japanese name?)
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To: Gaffer

32 posted on 04/16/2010 11:09:34 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Gaffer
I hope the 'prodders' were frickin' street bums checkin' out the action....

Just squeezing the tomato.


33 posted on 04/16/2010 11:09:51 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (We've gone from phony soldiers to phony conservative protesters. Nothing about liberalism is genuine)
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To: Paladin2

Rockin Sydney said “Don’t Mess with my TTIU”.


34 posted on 04/16/2010 11:10:42 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (We've gone from phony soldiers to phony conservative protesters. Nothing about liberalism is genuine)
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To: SnakeDoctor

It being New York, I surprized that a few of the patrons didn’t end up with broken fingers.


35 posted on 04/16/2010 11:12:56 AM PDT by frithguild (I gave to Joe Wilson the day after, to Scott Brown seven days before and next to JD Hayworth.)
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To: a fool in paradise
Like a turnstile?

Thanks for that mental image. Luckily, I had just finished sipping my coke before I read that.

36 posted on 04/16/2010 11:12:59 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: Willie Green
From the New York Times, April 15, 2010...

Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times

A woman ponders a gallery entrance partly blocked by two naked performers.

Some at MoMA Show Forget 'Look but Don’t Touch':
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/arts/design/16public.html


37 posted on 04/16/2010 11:13:17 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: JoeProBono

No fella, I just really wanted to see that ‘other’ buttcrack, from the chick lying down in that museum thingy picture....


38 posted on 04/16/2010 11:14:33 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Touching story - thanks for posting.

Yes, but not penetrating analysis I hope.

39 posted on 04/16/2010 11:15:00 AM PDT by HospiceNurse
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To: Willie Green

Why hasn’t anyone asked for pictures yet?


40 posted on 04/16/2010 11:15:30 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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