London’s Tate Gallery has removed a nude photo of ‘Lipstick Jungle’ actress Brooke Shields from an exhibition after Police suggested it might breach child pornography laws.Officers from London’s Metropolitan Police visited the gallery yesterday and are now consulting Britain’s highest legal authorities as to whether the photograph breaches that country’s obscenity laws.Taken in 1975 by New York artist, Gary Gross the photo shows Shields – then aged just 10 – standing naked in a bath, in full make up and covered with oil. It has been exhibited many times in the US but this was its debut in Britain. Children’s rights campaigners have been quick to condemn the gallery for including the picture – entitled “Spiritual America” – in their new exhibition, “Pop Life: Art In A Material World,” describing the work as a “magnet for pedophiles.”Brooke Shields entangled in nude photo storm
London’s Tate Gallery has removed a nude photo of ‘Lipstick Jungle’ actress Brooke Shields from an exhibition after Police suggested it might breach child pornography laws.Officers from London’s Metropolitan Police visited the gallery yesterday and are now consulting Britain’s highest legal authorities as to whether the photograph breaches that country’s obscenity laws.Taken in 1975 by New York artist, Gary Gross the photo shows Shields – then aged just 10 – standing naked in a bath, in full make up and covered with oil. It has been exhibited many times in the US but this was its debut in Britain. Children’s rights campaigners have been quick to condemn the gallery for including the picture – entitled “Spiritual America” – in their new exhibition, “Pop Life: Art In A Material World,” describing the work as a “magnet for pedophiles.”