Nude artist sues New York’s Museum of Modern Art over sexual assault claims

John Bonafede claims he was groped seven times while performing naked in a Marina Abramović exhibition in 2010

A nude artist is suing New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) for allegedly failing to prevent visitors from groping him during a Marina Abramović exhibition in 2010.

The work Imponderabilia, which was first staged in 1977 and was restaged in a retrospective of Abramović’s work at London’s Royal Academy of Arts last year, required two naked performers to stand face to face in a doorway, 18 inches apart, for more than an hour at a time while members of the public squeezed between them as they moved through the gallery.