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Controversial Art Installation - Naples

A gigantic vagina sculpture just a few steps away from Gaetano Pesce's “Pulcinella”, which caused such a stir last month. Naples, Italy on December 9, 2024. This morning, in Piazza Municipio, Neapolitans were able to observe not one but two works of art. The police intervened to remove the unauthorized installation. Artivist Cristina Donati Meyer's installation, a heartfelt tribute to the ancient origins of Naples, was placed next to Pesce's carnivalesque phallic structure. Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversial Art Installation - Naples

A gigantic vagina sculpture just a few steps away from Gaetano Pesce's “Pulcinella”, which caused such a stir last month. Naples, Italy on December 9, 2024. This morning, in Piazza Municipio, Neapolitans were able to observe not one but two works of art. The police intervened to remove the unauthorized installation. Artivist Cristina Donati Meyer's installation, a heartfelt tribute to the ancient origins of Naples, was placed next to Pesce's carnivalesque phallic structure. Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversial Art Installation - Naples

A gigantic vagina sculpture just a few steps away from Gaetano Pesce's “Pulcinella”, which caused such a stir last month. Naples, Italy on December 9, 2024. This morning, in Piazza Municipio, Neapolitans were able to observe not one but two works of art. The police intervened to remove the unauthorized installation. Artivist Cristina Donati Meyer's installation, a heartfelt tribute to the ancient origins of Naples, was placed next to Pesce's carnivalesque phallic structure. Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversial Art Installation - Naples

A gigantic vagina sculpture just a few steps away from Gaetano Pesce's “Pulcinella”, which caused such a stir last month. Naples, Italy on December 9, 2024. This morning, in Piazza Municipio, Neapolitans were able to observe not one but two works of art. The police intervened to remove the unauthorized installation. Artivist Cristina Donati Meyer's installation, a heartfelt tribute to the ancient origins of Naples, was placed next to Pesce's carnivalesque phallic structure. Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversial Art Installation - Naples

A gigantic vagina sculpture just a few steps away from Gaetano Pesce's “Pulcinella”, which caused such a stir last month. Naples, Italy on December 9, 2024. This morning, in Piazza Municipio, Neapolitans were able to observe not one but two works of art. The police intervened to remove the unauthorized installation. Artivist Cristina Donati Meyer's installation, a heartfelt tribute to the ancient origins of Naples, was placed next to Pesce's carnivalesque phallic structure. Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversial Art Installation - Naples

A gigantic vagina sculpture just a few steps away from Gaetano Pesce's “Pulcinella”, which caused such a stir last month. Naples, Italy on December 9, 2024. This morning, in Piazza Municipio, Neapolitans were able to observe not one but two works of art. The police intervened to remove the unauthorized installation. Artivist Cristina Donati Meyer's installation, a heartfelt tribute to the ancient origins of Naples, was placed next to Pesce's carnivalesque phallic structure. Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversial Art Installation - Naples

A gigantic vagina sculpture just a few steps away from Gaetano Pesce's “Pulcinella”, which caused such a stir last month. Naples, Italy on December 9, 2024. This morning, in Piazza Municipio, Neapolitans were able to observe not one but two works of art. The police intervened to remove the unauthorized installation. Artivist Cristina Donati Meyer's installation, a heartfelt tribute to the ancient origins of Naples, was placed next to Pesce's carnivalesque phallic structure. Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversial Art Installation - Naples

A gigantic vagina sculpture just a few steps away from Gaetano Pesce's “Pulcinella”, which caused such a stir last month. Naples, Italy on December 9, 2024. This morning, in Piazza Municipio, Neapolitans were able to observe not one but two works of art. The police intervened to remove the unauthorized installation. Artivist Cristina Donati Meyer's installation, a heartfelt tribute to the ancient origins of Naples, was placed next to Pesce's carnivalesque phallic structure. Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversial Art Installation - Naples

A gigantic vagina sculpture just a few steps away from Gaetano Pesce's “Pulcinella”, which caused such a stir last month. Naples, Italy on December 9, 2024. This morning, in Piazza Municipio, Neapolitans were able to observe not one but two works of art. The police intervened to remove the unauthorized installation. Artivist Cristina Donati Meyer's installation, a heartfelt tribute to the ancient origins of Naples, was placed next to Pesce's carnivalesque phallic structure. Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversial Art Installation - Naples

A gigantic vagina sculpture just a few steps away from Gaetano Pesce's “Pulcinella”, which caused such a stir last month. Naples, Italy on December 9, 2024. This morning, in Piazza Municipio, Neapolitans were able to observe not one but two works of art. The police intervened to remove the unauthorized installation. Artivist Cristina Donati Meyer's installation, a heartfelt tribute to the ancient origins of Naples, was placed next to Pesce's carnivalesque phallic structure. Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Controversial Art Installation - Naples

A gigantic vagina sculpture just a few steps away from Gaetano Pesce's “Pulcinella”, which caused such a stir last month. Naples, Italy on December 9, 2024. This morning, in Piazza Municipio, Neapolitans were able to observe not one but two works of art. The police intervened to remove the unauthorized installation. Artivist Cristina Donati Meyer's installation, a heartfelt tribute to the ancient origins of Naples, was placed next to Pesce's carnivalesque phallic structure. Photo by Salvatore Laporta/KONTROLAB/IPA/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Japanese "vagina kayak" artist announces engagement to British musician

Photo taken July 18, 2014, shows Megumi Igarashi, a Japanese artist, in a press conference in Tokyo following her release from a police cell after being arrested for obscenity charges in connection with a crowd-funding campaign to make a kayak modeled on her own genitalia. Igarashi, who works under the pseudonym "Rokudenashi-ko" (Good-For-Nothing Girl), announced her engagement to Mike Scott, the front-man of the British rock band The Waterboys, in April 2016. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Supreme Court rejects appeal by "vagina kayak" artist over obscenity

Megumi Igarashi (R), who works under the pseudonym "Rokudenashi-ko" (good-for-nothing girl), attends a news conference in Tokyo on July 16, 2020. The Supreme Court rejected earlier in the day an appeal made by the artist against a lower court ruling that found her guilty of obscenity for distributing 3-D scans of her own genitalia to supporters in 2013 and 2014.

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Supreme Court rejects appeal by "vagina kayak" artist over obscenity

Megumi Igarashi, who works under the pseudonym "Rokudenashi-ko" (good-for-nothing girl), holds a banner reading "unjust ruling" in front of the Supreme Court in Tokyo on July 16, 2020. The top court rejected earlier in the day an appeal made by the artist against a lower court ruling that found her guilty of obscenity for distributing 3-D scans of her own genitalia to supporters in 2013 and 2014.