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
Lusty Nude Is Booted From MoMA Exhibit
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)

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.
(More MoMA stories.)

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