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jakeXT

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8. Her picture in the bathtub when she was 10 caused more problems
Sat Dec 27, 2014, 03:43 PM
Dec 2014

A Richard Prince exhibition has reopened at the Tate Modern museum in London without a photograph of Brooke Shields that drew the attention of the police, Bloomberg News reported. The Tate Modern was to show Mr. Prince’s exhibition “Spiritual America” as part of its program Pop Life: Art in a Material World but closed it from view after Scotland Yard warned that a photograph it included, taken of Ms. Shields in the nude when she was 10 years old, could violate obscenity laws. The picture, which was included in “Spiritual America” when it was shown at the Guggenheim Museum in 2007, was taken by Mr. Prince from another photograph made by Gary Gross in 1976 and authorized by Ms. Shields’s mother. In a statement, the Tate Modern said the photograph had been replaced with another of Ms. Shields as an adult, dressed in a bikini and leaning against a motorbike. The statement added that the change was made “in consultation with the artist.”

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/richard-prince-exhibition-re-opens-after-brooke-shields-photo-is-replaced/?_r=0

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More importantly, When will "Guardians of The Galaxy" 2 be out? Katashi_itto Dec 2014 #1
Lego Movie II, Also. Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #19
Agree! Katashi_itto Dec 2014 #24
I've never seen it JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #2
There was a 1949 version as well Electric Monk Dec 2014 #6
I saw that when I was a little kid on TV PCIntern Dec 2014 #10
Minor nitpick. NuclearDem Dec 2014 #3
There were nude prepubescent children in it too. B Calm Dec 2014 #5
Yes Arcadiasix Dec 2014 #4
..... A HERETIC I AM Dec 2014 #7
Her picture in the bathtub when she was 10 caused more problems jakeXT Dec 2014 #8
Brooke Shields was only 12 Cirque du So-What Dec 2014 #9
Things like that are seriously creepy. dawg Dec 2014 #11
pretty baby was worse. Mosby Dec 2014 #12
Yep. GreenPartyVoter Dec 2014 #15
No it wasn't child pornography and no, that version could not be made today. nt onehandle Dec 2014 #13
Highly doubtful. hifiguy Dec 2014 #14
like AOL, that is the market her mother and those film makers were servicing reddread Dec 2014 #16
I've often wondered about "The Summer of 42" (1971). RoverSuswade Dec 2014 #17
Forget THAT… What about "Pretty Baby"? MrMickeysMom Dec 2014 #18
Never saw it. Warren DeMontague Dec 2014 #20
could blazing saddles be made today? the progression has reversed. it's a frickin' crazy ass world... spanone Dec 2014 #21
Could KISS/Gene Simmons publish "Christine Sixteen" hexola Dec 2014 #22
Yes and Yes. Rex Dec 2014 #23
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