What was Kathleen Neill arrested for at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City?
This might just be the best thing that could ever happen for Kathleen “K.C.” Neill’s modeling career. Sure, she now faces a charge of public lewdness but her name is all over the news. Neill was arrested while posing nude for photographer Zach Hyman in the arms and armor department at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on Wednesday. Hyman is known for photographing nude models all around New York including on subways. (Click here to visit Hyman’s Web site. Note: It is very “not safe for work.”) Hyman and Neill made their way past security and when the guard wasn’t looking Neill stripped down and Hyman photographed her as she danced around in front of shocked museum visitors. Personally, I find art museums kind of boring. This stunt surely livened things up. NBC New York has video of the incident – with the appropriate amount of blurriness, of course – and an interview with Neill before it all happened. Sources:
Art or obscenity? A nude model is arrested at the Met August 27, 2009 | 10:00 am Museum2 Venus de Milo, Liberty leading the people, Lady Godiva … and next? Nudity has been a staple of the visual arts since time began, but apparently the real thing is still too much for some people to handle. On Wednesday, a 26-year-old model was arrested in New York after posing for a photo shoot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Police said Kathleen Neill was posing naked for a photographer in full view of visitors at a gallery in the museum’s arms and armor department. Neill has been charged with two crimes: endangering the welfare of a minor and public lewdness, according to her lawyer, Donald Schechter. She was released from police custody Wednesday and is scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 22. “She didn’t do anything sexual. She didn’t perform lewdly and she made no reference to her genitalia,” Schechter said in an interview with Culture Monster. “There are nude sculptures and paintings all
