Emma Sulkowicz, an artist best known for the 2014-2015 Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), stood in front of a work by Chuck Close at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a separate Close mural at the 86 Street subway station. Sulkowicz, accompanied by photographer Sangsuk Sylvia Kang, wore only black underwear and asterisks that had been drawn and taped on Sulkowicz’s body. The performance, Sulkowicz told the New York Times, was prompted by the recent sexual misconduct allegations made against Close by numerous women. Close has characterized the allegations against him as overblown, telling the Times in late December: “Last time I looked, discomfort was not a major offense.” But the allegations against Close has led to a demand that his work, or at least his place in the contemporary canon, be reassessed. “Chuck Close Is Accused of Harassment. Should His Artwork Carry an Asterisk?” a headline at the Times asked. It is that very issue of the asterisk that prompted Sulkowicz’s most recent performance. The Times’s piece on the asterisk raised questions about what a museum’s responsibility is in the wake of #MeToo. The question isn’t particularly new—feminist art historians and artists, as well as groups like the Guerrilla… Read full this story
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