In the art world, Larry Rivers is praised as one of the grandfather’s of the Pop Art movement. But in his daughter’s eyes, Larry Rivers is also a pervert who began filming her nude when she was eleven — and continued to document her and her sister’s development through puberty over the next five years in a series he entitled “Growing.”

Engaging the girls in conversation about their budding breasts, Rivers allegedly accused them of being “uptight” and called them “bad daughters” when they expressed any unease. NYU recently purchased the films from the Larry Rivers Foundation, but the daughters feel that their father’s films are “child pornography” and would like them back.

Some fans of Rivers may interpret his intent to hone in on his daughters’ genitals as a platonic study of the female body. But those of us who aren’t delusional know that any man who makes overtly sexual films of his daughters and labels them “art” is a creeper to the core.

- Lizzie Crocker

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