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Police raid Tate Modern

Following calm and reasoned reports in the newspapers the police attended the pending Tate Modern exhibition Pop Life: Art In A Material World and forced the gallery to withdraw a picture of 10 year old Brooke Shields naked in case the images breached the Obscene Publications Act. The picture by New York artist Richard Prince shows Shields standing naked in a bath tub with a heavily made up face and oiled torso. A spokesman for the Tate said: "The exhibit is temporarily closed. We are in discussions with police."

More info here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/6248384/Brooke-Shields-picture-withdrawn-from-Tate-exhibition-after-police-visit.html

Readers Comments

ZombieTuesday
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hmm - dodgy!
Reply #2 on : Mon October 05, 2009, 05:33:25

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Art! while im all for freedom of expression, one wonders, actually no scrap that one thinks art was used as an excuse to be an outright nonce!

admin
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Re: Police raid Tate Modern
Reply #1 on : Thu October 01, 2009, 08:33:39

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i am all for art - massively - and freedom of expression but for the life of me i can't see what statement the artists is try to portray or the idea behind the piece that gives it merit... some one please explain it to me... why is a naked 10 year old oiled up, naked and wearing make up a piece of art?