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Lusty Nude Is Booted From MoMA Exhibit

Male was growing problem at Marina Abramovic exhibit

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 20, 2010 7:00 AM CDT
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(Newser) – It's not only spectators who are getting frisky at a Museum of Modern Art show featuring live nude models. One male on display in the Manhattan exhibit was so aroused by the experience that he was asked to leave, reports Page Six. The exhibit by artist Marina Abramovic features a nude couple standing in a doorway so that visitors have to squeeze between them. Some of the 38 nude models have complained that museumgoers are getting touchy-feely—but this is the first model asked to leave.

A patron squeezes past a nude man and woman in the MOMA exhibit Imponderabilia by artist Marina Abramovic. One of the nude male models has been asked to leave.
A patron squeezes past a nude man and woman in the MOMA exhibit "Imponderabilia" by artist Marina Abramovic. One of the nude male models has been asked to leave.   (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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bewilderbeast1
Apr 21, 2010 3:49 PM CDT
Damn! So even liberated artists have a problem with the human body! We have a lo-ong way to go.
SwtChocLAdy3
Apr 21, 2010 5:32 AM CDT
The tings peopledo and call it Art, then get mad at the manfor a natural reaction.
countchoculate
Apr 21, 2010 3:54 AM CDT
Can't blame the dude, standing in a doorway all day next across from a naked woman. If is were me, you wouldn't be able to fit through the door. And the three of us would have been fired together (Me, her and our unborn child).

 
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