While some dismiss these unsanctioned appearances as shameless provocations, the Luxembourg-born Ms. Then, at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, she was arrested after crashing an exhibition devoted to “Barbie,” appearing in a plastic costume that reimagined the classic doll as a symbol of 21st-century feminism, with articulated nipples, pubic hair, a nose ring and Go-Pro camera strapped to her head. At the Musée Guimet, she recast herself as the model in an iconic photograph by Nobuyoshi Araki, dressing as a geisha and gorging on a watermelon placed between her legs. This month, she invited herself into two major Paris exhibitions. ![]() In 2014, the renegade performance artist Deborah de Robertis shocked audiences at the Musée d’Orsay by exposing her genitals in front of Gustave Courbet’s “The Origin of the World.” In January, she was arrested after staging a similar re-enactment of Manet’s “Olympia,” also at the Orsay.
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