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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: Willie Green

Makes sense - you aren’t allowed to touch strippers either.


61 posted on 04/16/2010 11:41:45 AM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded, my brains fell out.)
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To: JoeProBono

I’d step on it!.....


62 posted on 04/16/2010 11:42:47 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: a fool in paradise
Or maybe limbo...

It's becoming obvious that I need to forego any liquid refreshment when reading your posts!

63 posted on 04/16/2010 11:45:01 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: a fool in paradise

Now that picture of Satan’s Clown is good. Reminds me of Jimmy Durante.


64 posted on 04/16/2010 11:45:58 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: ETL
Jeez!....I'm so intellectual that I can stand here and totally ignore two nude women two feet in front of me!... my liberalism is just awesome!
65 posted on 04/16/2010 11:46:45 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
WIDE LOAD, COMING THROUGH!


66 posted on 04/16/2010 11:48:45 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: darkwing104

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.


67 posted on 04/16/2010 11:48:46 AM PDT by decisis
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To: a fool in paradise
Reminds of this Duane Hanson sculpture in a museum ...everyone wants to touch it. Meh.


68 posted on 04/16/2010 11:50:47 AM PDT by Daffynition ( In the span of one man's lifetime, only the individual has any potential - not the collective.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
"Jeez!....I'm so intellectual that I can stand here and totally ignore two nude women two feet in front of me!..."

She's probably just very good at hiding her arousal.


69 posted on 04/16/2010 11:53:20 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: ETL

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“A woman ponders...”?

Ogling.

She’s ogling.


70 posted on 04/16/2010 11:53:49 AM PDT by Touch Not the Cat (Where is the light? Wonder if it's weeping somewhere...)
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To: Willie Green

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.


71 posted on 04/16/2010 11:58:49 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: a fool in paradise; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Who could have forseen this happening?


72 posted on 04/16/2010 11:59:38 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (FUBO! FUNP! FUHR! FUBS!)
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To: Willie Green
I've been to this exhibition. There is a portion where you walk narrowly through a naked man and women, with the space so narrow that it is difficult NOT to touch.

I should also say that for a 60 year old woman, Marina looks very good.

73 posted on 04/16/2010 12:02:49 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Willie Green


Feast your eyes on the latest nude performer
74 posted on 04/16/2010 12:03:44 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: decisis
This is just an educated Liberal's version of a strip club...


75 posted on 04/16/2010 12:11:57 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: mlocher

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.

76 posted on 04/16/2010 12:33:22 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

ROTFLMAO!!!!


77 posted on 04/16/2010 12:38:25 PM PDT by painter (No wonder democrats don't mind taxes.THEY DON'T PAY THEM !)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

Tim Burton, hmmmmm. Better web entrance.


78 posted on 04/16/2010 12:39:34 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: NYC GOP Chick

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...


79 posted on 04/16/2010 12:44:01 PM PDT by Canedawg (I'm not digging this tyranny thing.)
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To: mlocher

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).


80 posted on 04/16/2010 12:44:31 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick
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