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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Tim Jonze

Nude artist sues New York’s Museum of Modern Art over sexual assault claims

Imponderabilia by Marina Abramović at Art Basel in 2012.
Imponderabilia by Marina Abramović at Art Basel in 2012. Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters

A nude artist is suing New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for allegedly failing to prevent visitors from groping him during a Marina Abramović exhibition in 2010.

The work Imponderabilia, which was first staged in 1977 and was restaged in a retrospective of Abramović’s work at London’s Royal Academy of Arts last year, required two naked performers to stand face to face in a doorway, 18 inches apart, for more than an hour at a time while members of the public squeezed between them as they moved through the gallery.

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