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Artist Responds to Criticism for Her Nude Performance at Catholic Holy Site

Avatar photo by Zachary Small September 5, 2018

Deborah De Robertis gave Catholic pilgrims to Lourdes the shock of their lives by disrobing as the Virgin Mary to emancipate the female gaze from religion.

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Performance Artist Who Exposed Herself In Front of the “Mona Lisa” Is Acquitted

by Joseph Nechvatal October 20, 2017

On Wednesday, Deborah De Robertis was acquitted for her performance in which she shouted, “Mona Lisa, my pussy, my copyright,” while revealing her vagina.

School of Leonardo da Vinci, "La Joconde nue" (ca 1514–16), 28.5 x 21 in (© RMN-Grand Palais, domaine de Chantilly; photo by Gérard Blot)
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Experts Believe Leonardo Sketched the Mona Lisa Nude

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton September 29, 2017

Analysis of a drawing long attributed to Leonardo’s studio suggests the artist worked on at least part of it, and that it may have been a preparatory sketch for the Mona Lisa.

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Performance Artist Does the Impossible, Shows Up Courbet’s “Origin of the World”

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 6, 2014June 10, 2014

A twentysomething woman sits down in front of Gustave Courbet’s “Origin of the World” (1866), pulls up her dress, splays her legs, and shows her vulva, clitoris, and possibly part of her vagina to the visitors in the gallery.

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