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That's the dilemma Russian curator Yasha Yavorskaya faced when she put together the multimedia exposition, 'The Drifting Canvas', and was told to be cautious while choosing
artists for an Indian audience. Michelangelo without his nudes! That's the dilemma Russian curator Yasha Yavorskaya faced when she put together the multimedia exposition, 'The
Drifting Canvas', and was told to be cautious while choosing artists for an Indian audience. And that is why the ongoing exhibition at Select City Walk here does not have any works of
Italian master Michelangelo, or indeed nudes by 11 other artists, including Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin and Henri Rousseau. Art culture in India, says Yavorskaya, is much
more conservative than what is usually acceptable for art connoisseurs in Europe. The irony of this being the land of Kamasutra was not lost on anybody. "We have had heard about reports
of protest against artists who showcase nudity in their art works. So we thought of self-censorship and excluded some iconic works. For India, we made content without nudity,"
Yavorskaya told (This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
