A lifelike sculpture of a man sleepwalking in his underpants caused some students at Wellesley College in Massachusetts to call for the piece's removal this week. In response, the school's president and the museum director issued a statement, saying "the very best works of art have the power to stimulate deeply personal emotions and to provoke unexpected new ideas, and this sculpture is no exception."
Do these equally-as-quirky art intallations provoke any reaction from you? See pics below.
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| A taxidermied artwork of a Jack Russell dog entitled 'I'm Dead' at a press preview a new exhibition 'Brain Activity' by British artist David Shrigley at The Hayward Gallery on January 31, 2012 in London, England. Known for his crude and comedic observations Shrigley's Brain Activity was the first major survey of his work. |
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| A visitor to the National Galleries of Scotland view the work of Australian-born, London-based sculptor Ron Mueck on August 4, 2006 in Edinburgh. Mueck's sculptures explore the full life cycle, encompassing birth, adolescence, procreation middle age, old age, and death. |
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Sculptures of cockroaches with human faces appear to climb up the facade of the Museo de Bellas Artes during an exhibition in Havana, March 27, 2009
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A visitor passes behind the sculpture 'Puma-Dentist' made with plastic, wax and original heads of a puma and a hind by Austrian artist Deborah Sengl during an exhibition at the art gallery Deschler in Berlin, April 15, 2008
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Gallery workers sit next to "Teoria" by Eduardo Basualdo at the Frame Gallery's stand at the Frieze Art Fair in central London, October 16, 2013
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An unidentified man walks behind Ron Mueck's 'Mask' at a press preview of Charles Saatchi's new gallery in the former GLC building County Hall, April 14, 2003 in London, England.
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| A statue by Tony Matelli titled "Sleepwalker" stands in the snow on the campus of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, February 5, 2014. More than 100 signatures were collected from an online petition to remove the statue from the all-women's college, citing the statue as inappropriate |
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