«OH, ART IS TOO HARD»

The biggest shock is that a 60-minute video called Untitled made by New York artist Andrea Fraser was pulled from the travelling Pop Life exhibition at the artist's request, according to Jonathan Shaughnessy, a National Gallery (Ottawa) curator. Back in 2003, Fraser advertised for a male "art collector" willing to pay $20,000 for the experience of having sex with her. The result was an explicit video of the coupling supposedly demonstrating how artists are required to sell more than their soul.
The video was shown at earlier stops of Pop Life in London and Hamburg, but Fraser apparently had enough of sharing her intimate hour with the world. Maybe she realized Untitled was just too yesterday.

-National Post
June 14 2010