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.
Makes sense - you aren’t allowed to touch strippers either.
I’d step on it!.....
It's becoming obvious that I need to forego any liquid refreshment when reading your posts!
Now that picture of Satan’s Clown is good. Reminds me of Jimmy Durante.
A good example of “you reap what you sow,” ah the joys of extreme liberalism. First, nude people in an art exhibit is not art, it’s public indecency. Are kids allowed to see this “art?” Then you could say OK, what do you expect when you have nude people in an art exhibit, you can’t be surprised when people are going to touch. But what kind of touching is going on, just innocent curiousity or groping of a sexual nature, which could be considered a sex offense. Do you see the irony of this? They have no business having nude people in an “art exhibit” but then they complain when people grope and fondle them and commit what could be considered a 3rd or 4th degree sex offense. What’s to stop some sicko from going beyond touching and forcing himself on one of the nude models and calling it “performance art?” One thing’s for sure, all the people involved, whether they are the “artist” or the people putting on the exhibit, or are in the exhibit or are touching the “exhibit,” they all voted for Obama.
She's probably just very good at hiding her arousal.
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“A woman ponders...”?
Ogling.
She’s ogling.
Too funny, Willie Green!
A new generation of mugged liberals find out why one wears clothing in public. Many are learning why it is a good idea to take showers and not lay down with dogs as I type. Others are learning the reason you need the protection of a gun when set upon by a pack of wildin’ “diversity” racists in the city.
Because of political correctness, we do a bad job of passing on useful lessons from one generation to another. Each generation seems to have to degenerate into the gutter to find it’s very dirty and dangerous in there.
I should also say that for a 60 year old woman, Marina looks very good.
There probably aren't many pictures of this exhibition, because they strictly prohibit photography in the gallery. There are also lots of security guards roaming around, to enforce the no photography and the no touching rules.
And nobody has to walk through the nude people to get from one area to another. They do position the nekkid people very close so that people have to squeeze through, and that is why we chose to walk around to another entrance (from one area to another).
I've seen many strange things at this place (it is the Museum of Modern Art, after all), but this was the dumbest. This one is much more interesting, IMO.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
Tim Burton, hmmmmm. Better web entrance.
I saw the Tim Burton exhibit, it was okay, but I am trying to remember what the OTHER exhibit was that was going on at the time, because THAT was the reason we went to MOMA- it wasnt that long ago, but I can’t think of the other exhibit...
That is a really fun exhibition. It’s been overrun with tourists, but I saw it in previews and really enjoyed it. I even got the Oyster Boy t-shirt, before they sold out (which was pretty fast).
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