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| "So what is all the fuss surrounding
Vanessa Beecroft, the Italian-born artist whose work consists of having
good-looking female models take off their clothes and stand around in
galleries and museums? Of course people are going to want to have a look! "Beecroft would have been 15 years old when, back in 1984, a political art group called the Guerrilla Girls attacked the New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s curatorial policies by circulating a tract which read in part, 'Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum? Less than 5% of the Modern Art section are women, but 85% of the nudes are female.' The Guerrilla Girls might have been thinking 'revival' last year, when Beecroft brought her 'Show' into the main rotunda are of the hallowed Guggenheim Museum, New York. "But times have changed, and it seems that critics in particular and the art world in general learned to like it when Andres Seranno submerged a crucifix in urine and liked it even more when Damien Hirst dropped a cow into formaldehyde, and well, went and put Vanessa Beecroft on the cover of Artforum magazine when she marched her good-looking girls into the Guggenheim. Could it be that contemporary art is in such danger of becoming socially insignificant that any bit of scandal which will pique public interest is desperately embraced?" |
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little
known fact: this is actually what the Mona Lisa is wearing
- smartest woman alive good-looking? hell...that blonde one looks like one of those babies that gets its head tied between two boards when it's a baby. don't even get me started on the bangs and them thunder thighs. - ice queen--feeling better about her low self esteem so...suddenly if a woman takes off her clothes in an art gallery it ceases to be porn? - silent bob Dont touch the art. If you do try ...you will get whacked in the head with a size 7 pump. - Great Security just the muff? how is that art? i could parade around like that and get attention and no one would call that art OR pornography, they'd just call it inappropriate. fuck, if you're going to model women's bodies, why not show the whole beautiful thing and not just the pussy? i'm so frustrated with this that i can't even come up with anything intelligent to say. - stupid sure...gawk at naked women all you want, hell, it's an art gallery after all - an for men in suits to stare at naked women with their wives present Best BUSH yet! - Worm looking for a home It's art at the guggenhiem but it's porn when it's in juggs. those strange humans........... - the naked truth Looks like folks are keeping their distance, are the models trained to bite? if she really wanted to do something new, Beecroft should have used models of all body sizes. - Bored with perfection Kinda takes your mind off standing in a three hour queue...They should do that at DISNEYLAND. - Miami Mike |
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ART!
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(31 Votes- 52% Art, 48% Porn) |
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