A Brush with Nude Art

[JollyMon66]

Brush with nude art not for everyone at MoMA
Exhibit by Yugoslavian-born artist features naked pair in doorway

For video of story....

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp ... 8#35893148


SO - the big question...could YOU walk in the narrow gap between two nude strangers?


NEW YORK - A new exhibit at The Museum of Modern Art is causing discomfort among some visitors by bringing them close to nude performers — some might say too close.

Two nude performers stand inches apart in a narrow doorway of the exhibit of work by Yugoslavian-born artist Marina Abramovic, which opened on Sunday.

The position of the naked pair, who alternate and are either opposite or same-sex performers, forces patrons to decide whether to walk between them. To some patrons, a brush with live flesh was just too much to ponder. Morgan Wolfe, an 18-year-old visitor to the museum, decided not to walk between two male performers. "It bothers me a bit," he told the New York Post in Sunday editions.

The exhibit, "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present," presents a view of Abramovic's career over four decades and her work in a variety of mediums, including performance art, installations, sound pieces, video works and photographs.

Besides the naked pair in the doorway, the exhibit includes a nude performer lying under a skeleton and a naked woman on a bicycle seat. Abramovic is best known for performance works in which she exposed herself to physical pain, sometimes involving audience participation. In one of her most squirm-inducing works, she invited members of the audience to inflict pain on her with one of 72 objects, including a rose, a chain, scissors, knives, a whip and a gun.

The exhibit at the MoMA continues through May 31.

[pair8head]

Just amazes me what some people will do and call it art.

[big john]

"SO - the big question...could YOU walk in the narrow gap between two nude strangers?"

I have a problem with narrow gaps no matter who the hell is in it.

[JollyMon66]

"SO - the big question...could YOU walk in the narrow gap between two nude strangers?"

I have a problem with narrow gaps no matter who the hell is in it.

I hate when boobies get in the way

[Skibo]

I would but very slowly.

[ph4ever]

I'm more curious as to what my friends think I'll do.

[flyboy55]

No problemo. Sacrifices must be made for art.

I might become part of the installation. They could call it "the flyboy sandwich".

[Bicycle Bill]

Do it outside of MoMA, like maybe in Central Park or Times Square, and they'd call it indecent exposure.
But do it *inside* MoMA and they call it "art".

What the hell is wrong with people?

-"BB"-