Day By Day

Monday, April 11, 2005

More on Vanessa Beecoft's Naked Women

A few days ago I posted a piece on an exhibit of 100 naked women organized by Vanessa Beecroft and shown in Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie. She calls it a "post-modern criticism of the obsession with beauty." I call it pornography. The viewing public seems to agree with me.

AFP reports:
BERLIN - Organisers of a performance art show featuring 100 naked women had to call in police reinforcements to control a long and impatient queue of people, police said.

Scuffles broke out late Friday as people tried to jump over the barriers to get closer to the women, aged between 18 and 65, wearing see-through stockings and greased with baby oil, who arranged themselves according to the instructions of US [she used to bill herself as "Italian"] artist Vanessa Beecroft.

The show, dubbed VB55, at one of Berlin's main museums, was the latest in a series by Beecroft, who specialises in works displaying naked or semi-naked women. Her VB45, in Vienna in 2000, featured 45 of them.

A total of 20 police were required to control the Berlin spectators, who had each paid 10 euros (13 dollars) admission.

Read about it here.

Like I said many times before -- sex sells, and sells, and sells....

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