To attend a new Royal Academy show, visitors must squeeze between two naked models
To attend a new Royal Academy show, visitors must squeeze between two naked models to enter it. For those who feel uncomfortable squeezing through the nude dancers, there is a second entrance. This new installation has received heavy criticisms, with world renowned news outlets such as the Guardian and New York Times describing the critics as "vital" and "remorseless" respectively. Entering between the two naked performers forces those with tickets into a "confrontation between nakedness, and the gender, the sexuality, the desire", the Royal Academy's head of exhibitions Andrea Tarsia has said. A fifty-year career of Marina Abramovi is covered in the retrospective. In the 255-year history of the Royal Academy, she is the first female artist to hold a solo exhibition there. A critic put this succinctly about modern art. "I'm intentionally making people uncomfortable and being pretentious about it" -modern art." "You have to ...