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  • Nude performers at NYC museum exhibition complain of being touched by patrons

    04/16/2010 10:54:08 AM PDT · by Willie Green · 120 replies · 3,445+ views
    metronews.ca ^ | April 16, 2010
    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...
  • Idaho bar raided for violating ordinance

    04/05/2005 3:17:30 PM PDT · by SmithL · 9 replies · 910+ views
    AP ^ | 4/5/5 | REBECCA BOONE
    BOISE, Idaho - Art night at Erotic City apparently wasn't artistic enough. Police raided the Boise bar Monday night for violating the city's nudity ordinance, which requires that dancers wear at least pasties and a thong unless they are engaging in a performance with "serious artistic merit." The club had tried to beat the ordinance by distributing pencils and sketch pads to patrons during special twice-weekly "art nights," when the dancers performed nude. "It's actually pretty clear in the city ordinance that there are exemptions for dance and theater and artistic merits, but the law also clearly states that the...