Art or Obscenity? A Nude Model Is Arrested At The Met

LATimes ^ | August 27, 2009

[Clint N. Suhks]

Was she guilty or not guilty?

[GeronL]

Well, if she was violating their rules it could be trespassing. Being naked in NYC is not illegal I think. If the model and photographers were engaged in a business venture without the buildings/museum permit it could be a lawsuit.

[Mmogamer]

Uh... how bout some pics... just to ascertain guilt or not..

[Izzy Dunne]

article with pictures

[ari-freedom]

nope. FR doesn’t allow nude pics...

[livius]

Sounds like a grandstanding “artist” to me. Also, I suspect there are fees for photoshoots in the Met, clothed or unclothed, and he probably just didn’t want to pay them.

[EyeGuy]

“It’s a project I’ve been working on for three months now — it’s the idea that nudity isn’t necessarily perverse or sexual,”

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Wow.

Aren’t you just the hippest, edgiest, most revolutionary thinker around.

No one said nudity is perverse or sexual ONLY. Only a closed-minded leftist obsessed with sex would think in that manner

But centuries of human history have recognized the wisdom of keeping it private.

[r9etb]

Uh... how bout some pics... just to ascertain guilt or not..

Posted purely as a public service. Innocent as a fluffy kitten in pure, driven snow.

[eddie willers]

The photo shoot was conducted by Brooklyn-based photographer Zach Hyman

As Dave Barry sez: "I'm not making this up".

[Nachum]

http://www.zhfoto.com/

Soooo not guilty.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

http://www.inquisitr.com/34808/at-it-again-zac-hyman-gets-kathleen-neill-arrested-at-the-met/

[Monterrosa-24]

I noticed at Auburn University that the Art Dept. sure doesn’t pay the nude models very much. A few years ago it was $15 per hour which must translate to 15 per session which doesn’t make it worth going over to the studio.

[Drango]

Hyman didn't have formal permission to photograph in the museum...

Guerrilla filming is frowned upon, but you can get away with it if discreet. Nude guerrilla filming is a little over the top and methinks the so called artist wanted the free publicist.

[ari-freedom]

aren’t you kinda proving the point that it is obscene if you need to use black rectangles?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Typical cheap liberal jerk.

[ZULU]

Well, it depends on what she looks like.

If she weighed 300 lbs, she should have been arrested. If she looked like Monica Crowley, probably not.

[ZULU]

NOT GUILTY!!!!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

if you go to the source, he was taking nude pictures on the subway, previously. Probably the transit police are more forgiving, considering what they have to put up with every day.

[brytlea]

From the article,

For every photo shoot he does – and there’s been a few – he always keeps his attorney on speed dial and some extra cash on hand, just in case.

Sounds to me as if he knew this would cause trouble. Just guessing, but part of his schtick seems to be to create *news* for himself.