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Nude Models York Museum Groped - Movies, Music, Fashion, Sports - Posted: 17th Apr, 2010 - 12:38am
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Nude Models At New York Museum Groped
Why would the organizers or even the models expect a different reaction? You have a bunch of nude models posing and possibly just staying in a particular area without moving, this is bound to happen!
QUOTE NEW YORK -- Museum patrons know that touching the art is a no-no -- and that means live, naked performers too.
Several nude models who are featured in Marina Abramovic's new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art have complained of being groped by some patrons. The museum has declined to talk about specific incidents, but acknowledged that it has had problems with some visitors touching performers.
"We are well aware of the challenges posed by having nude performers in the galleries," the museum said in a statement. "Any visitor who improperly touches or disturbs any of the performers is escorted from the museum by MoMA security."
One performer, Will Rawls, told The New York Times that a patron brushed his hand chest and back "and then touched my butt."
"As he was passing me he looked me in the eyes and said 'You feel good, man,"' Rawls said.
Rawls said he notified a security guard and later learned that the man's 30-year membership was revoked.
Despite the incidents, all the performers said they enjoyed what they are doing, though some visitors have expressed discomfort.
The exhibition, which opened March 14, includes nude performers standing in a narrow doorway facing each other as visitors squeeze between them. Elsewhere, two clothed people touch fingertips, two others sit back to back with their hair entwined and a naked woman reclines with a skeleton (not a real one) on top of her....
Several nude models who are featured in Marina Abramovic's new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art have complained of being groped by some patrons. The museum has declined to talk about specific incidents, but acknowledged that it has had problems with some visitors touching performers.
"We are well aware of the challenges posed by having nude performers in the galleries," the museum said in a statement. "Any visitor who improperly touches or disturbs any of the performers is escorted from the museum by MoMA security."
One performer, Will Rawls, told The New York Times that a patron brushed his hand chest and back "and then touched my butt."
"As he was passing me he looked me in the eyes and said 'You feel good, man,"' Rawls said.
Rawls said he notified a security guard and later learned that the man's 30-year membership was revoked.
Despite the incidents, all the performers said they enjoyed what they are doing, though some visitors have expressed discomfort.
The exhibition, which opened March 14, includes nude performers standing in a narrow doorway facing each other as visitors squeeze between them. Elsewhere, two clothed people touch fingertips, two others sit back to back with their hair entwined and a naked woman reclines with a skeleton (not a real one) on top of her....
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Post Date: 17th Apr, 2010 - 12:38am / Post ID: #
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Let me get this correct. IF you touch a model you get escorted out but they place two models in a narrow doorway forcing people to touch them as the squeeze past them. I think that is a invitation to be groped. If you do not want the models touched you do not place them in a position that makes people touch them. What ever happened to ropes that keep patrons out of arms reach away?
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