Celebrity performance artist, Marina Abramovic, is having her big naked moment of glory at the MoMA, where a retrospective of her 40 years of work is on display. While Abramovic sits (fully clothed) at a table and visitors are allowed to sit across from her and meet her stare, the artist employed 38 naked mignons to stand in various contemplative poses throughout the gallery.

A lecherous “older man” visitor reached out and caressed the butt of one of the naked male performers. Then he murmured to the vulnerable pilates-instructor-turned-performance-artist, “You feel good, man.” This elderly creeper had his 30-year MoMA membership taken away and is never allowed to return to the museum. That doesn’t seem very progressive to me. At the end of the day, even the avant garde art installations are like middle school field trips: “Don’t touch the art.”

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