In Brief
Over the past two years, Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi has faced charges for distributing data that could be used to make 3D models of her vagina and for creating a yellow, yonic kayak, as well as small vagina-shaped plaster figurines, that she displayed in a Tokyo sex shop.
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On this week’s art crime blotter: a disgraced antiquities dealer's stash of loot was discovered, a fake Picasso was seized by Turkish police, and a stolen portrait of R2-D2 was returned.
In Brief
In honor of Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi, aka Rokudenashi-ko ("Good-for-nothing girl"), Jon Stewart premiered a new segment on The Daily Show last night: "We May Have Problems, But at Least We're Not Jailing Artists for 3D Printing Their Vaginas."
In Brief
Police in Tokyo have arrested a female artist on charges of obscenity, with investigators claiming that she distributed electronic data that could be used to replicate models of her genitals using a 3D printer, The Japan Times reported.