Kusama’s polka-dot nudity performances drew poor box office

Evidence

Amended to Mike Jahn’s New York Times review was a brief acknowledgment: “While the audience was entering the theater Friday and Saturday, nude people ran in the aisles painting polka dots on customers’ faces. At one point an actor dressed as a policeman was stripped on stage.” It was, Graham would concede, poor box office. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1342

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The ‘actor dressed as a policeman was stripped on stage’ bit connects to the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article’s throughline about dress-policing as political theater—here performed literally as theater.