"We also run the real risk of criminalizing a lot world renowned art like Nabokov novels and Balthus paintings." - FSU_UCLA
I'm fairly sure I can't even post his paintings. We run the risk of criminalizing a pedophiles work? Really? This isn't the first time we've covered your penchant for pedophiles.
The work in the Metropolitan show was mostly produced between the 1930s and 50s but it didn't include Balthus' most notorious painting, The Guitar Lesson, which he painted in 1934. As recently as 2001, The New York Times refused to reproduce it - and you won't be seeing it in Post Magazine either - but the internet has now made it widely available. It features a woman whose right breast is exposed and who looks as if she's about to play, or play with, the naked private parts of the child splayed across her lap whose hair she's viciously pulling.
Every Wednesday afternoon in the 1990s, therefore, from the age of eight until the age of 16, Anna posed for the eighty year old artist, usually semi-naked. It turned out, although few people in the art world had known it, that he'd taken nearly 2,000 Polaroids of a the girl, the youngest daughter of his doctor. Afterwards, the pair would settle down to watch American television soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, which is the sort of shrieking metaphor a director might hesitate to put in the film that is surely waiting to be made about Balthus' extraordinary life.