Paris’ X-rated building
Even the Louvre has limits, said
in Hyperallergic .com. Late last month, the fabled Paris museum announced that Domestikator, a 40-foot-tall inhabitable sculpture previously exhibited in Germany, is too sexually explicit to be displayed in a museum garden this fall as planned. Designed by a Dutch collective, the work is a house-like structure that brings to mind two bodies engaged in a sexual act—possibly bestiality—and in Paris, the structure would have loomed over a children’s playground. But how much trauma could the work really cause? asked in HuffingtonPost .com. Domestikator is so abstract “it’s no more NSFW than a mischievous arrangement of Legos,” and in Germany it stood for two years in an art park without incident. At a time when free speech is under broad assault, “it is interesting to note that museums are leaning toward conservatism over controversy.”