Busty Artwork Removed from Manhattan Lobby After Complaints

NEW YORK—A photograph by Diana Kingsley prominently featuring a woman’s bust was recently removed from a curated show in an office building in Manhattan, reports Tom Moody on his blog.

The property, at 55 Fifth Avenue, is owned by arts patron Francis Greenburger, founder of Art Omi, an artists’ colony in upstate New York.

The complaints stemmed from the fact that the building also houses a medical office that performs mammograms. Complaints had been made that the work, which depicts a woman in a snug sweater from the neck down, was inappropriate “in a place where women were possibly getting bad news about cancer,” writes Moody.