Wednesday, October 14, 2009

London’s Metropolitan Police Raid Made Tate Modern to Replace Controversial Nude Image of Brook Shield


This is clearly a case of policing the artwork and it is unbelievable that in happened in London. London’s Metropolitan Police went on its own accord (not acted on any complaint) and sealed the room where Richard Prince’s artwork depicting 10 year old Brook Shields in nude was exhibited. Tate Modern consulted Scotland Yard and finally decided to remove the controversial image and replaced it with another modestly covered image of the actress when she was much older.

Best part of the story is that the artwork has been exhibited before many times and it was also part of retrospective in New York couple of years ago. It is not known what made Metropolitan Police come down heavily on a clear piece of art and that too threaten to put the matter under Protection of Children Act of 1978. Obscenity and perversion lies in the mindset of the viewers and such policing that too of artwork is anything but futile in a modern open society.

The exhibition entitled Tate Modern’s Pop Life Show includes works of Warhol, Jeff Koons and Cosey Fanni Tutti. This little controversy has put a question mark on freedom of artist, policing of artwork and future of culture in modern society.

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