pop life.

yesterday i had to do some filming around the Tate for a uni project i'm working on, so i thought while i was there it would be a good idea to check out the Pop Life exhibition one last time as it all comes to an end on monday. i was most excited about revisiting the replica Keith Haring Pop Shop and all the Murakami stuff, and it blew me away all over again. however, one of the things i was most curious about was what had been done about the Richard Prince Brooke Shields piece. if you don't remember, due to legal advice, the Tate pulled the controversial Richard Prince 'photograph of a photograph' featuring a 10 year old Brooke Shields posing naked in the bath the night before the exhibition was set to start.

read more about it about it here.

see the image here.

i was at the exhibition on the opening day, and the Richard Prince room of the exhibition had been sectioned off, and every single copy of the museum catalogue had been removed from the gift shop. upon returning yesterday, the Prince room was now open, however it featured a very different photograph of Brooke Shields taken much much later in the actresses life of her posing bikini-clad next to a motorcycle. bit of a cop out it you ask me - it should be all or nothin'.. however, much more to my surprise was that the catalogue was back on sale (at a very reasonable price might I add), so of course I had to have one. after much speculation of what they might of done, e.g. reprint the whole thing without the image, rip out every page with the image on etc. it turns out the Tate opted for the sticker option as you can see below.

i haven't tried removing it as i have a feeling that its one of those mean stickers whereby if you try to remove it, the whole page will go with it, and we definitely do not want that. still, quite an interesting end to quite an interesting story. peace.