Museum Finds Vandalism Charming



The Minneapolis Institute of Arts rented a billboard sign for their exhibition "Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting." It featured a portion of the nude painting Venus Rising from the Sea. It didn't stay nude.
Apparently, someone thought it was just a little too nipple-y outside. Even if this is some kind of Midwestern modesty thing, at least the vandal did grant Venus a saucy red strapless deal--hardly sensible blizzard-people attire.

The MIA's PR staff held a little pow-wow with Clear Channel, who offered to take the billboard down immediately. But head of PR Anne-Marie Wagener was tickled.

"Without those words it did look as though someone's trying to censor it," she says. "But with 'Brrrr!' it has that whole sort of funny element. Because it is cold!"

They've decided to leave Venus and her new wardrobe up.

Link (contains art nude) -via reddit

Pretty sure this is a reference to the rapper Gucci Mane, you know the one that has an ice cream coned tattooed on his face with "Brrr!", not to how cold it is outside ;)
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"But with ‘Brrrr!’ it has that whole sort of funny element. Because it is cold!"

Well, I guess they are artists not linguists. Either that or she just assumes people are really stupid.
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