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.
How long ago was that?
Thanks!
Hmmm...it might have been in December. My cousin comes in from out of town a few times a year, and we usually go to the MOMA. She was here at the end of December, so it was probably then. I am trying to recall if she was here since then...
(Did you see the exhibit last year of all the belongings of the woman pack-rat who lived somewhere in Asia? That was kind of over-the-top humorous).
We’ve allowed too much of this decadence.
I’m trying to remember which exhibitions were when. Some exhibits go on for months, and I usually try to see them (at least for the first time) when they’re still in previews.
No, I didn’t see the packrat, but it sounds like it was worth seeing, at least for the humor potential! :-)
Willie dated Helen Thomas back in her early cougar days when Lincoln was just a boy!
It’s coming back to me now...the German school of art that blossomed in the early 20th century. I can’t recall the name. It may have been named after the town where the school was located.
Lots of stark but functional furniture and art; it was revolutionary at the time. It was from a school of artists located somewhere in Germany that produced this type of art, and it went against the art establishment at the time.
Ehhh, if i think of the name, I’ll ping you.
Are you thinking of Bauhaus? (Not the 80s band)
The Bauhaus.
Bauhaus. Yes, I liked that exhibition.
Yes, thank you, The Bauhaus.
‘twas a very interesting exhibit. My cuz, with whom I go to the museums, is a professor of art at a college up in New England, so I get quite the guided tour when I go with her. She had a lot of info about the bauhaus.
Yep, see my post below yours.
I just went to move the car (alternate side parking, you know, lol) and WINS ran this MOMA story, and how people were touching the nudes, lol.
The Bauhaus were pioneers in unifying design across all disciplines. The school was relocated three times, with the focus changing to some extend with each move. Early Bauhaus produced notable pottery. There was a focus on architecture and furniture throughout the Bauhaus era, up to 1933 when the Nazis tried to coopt their graphic design program, met resistance from the leading designers, and the school was closed.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was one of the better known leaders of the Bauhaus, the last director of it in fact, who fled Germany and established himself in the US. His name is associated with many noted buildings such as the Seagram Building, and many fine pieces of furniture regarded as especially masterful works of modernism that are still in production today.
Good info!
Ya gotta love the NY art scene-if they’re not fondling nude models, they’re dipping something in urine or smearing it in feces. Out here in the nether region of ‘flyover’ land, you’d have to go to a cathouse or waste treatment plant to enjoy such sophistication!!
Where’s that Helen Thomas photo when needed?
Okay, that’s it. I did not assist in your FR picture posting training to be subjected to this!
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