Going ape
It’s one of the great art works of the late 1980s. Printed on a yellow poster, a nude woman lies with her back to us, her twist offered up as a permanent, erotic invitation to her (presumed) male viewer. Except, in this case, the temptation has been hacked. Instead of the woman’s original, pristine face — she’s the Grande Odalisque, by 19th-century figurative genius and soft-porn master Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres — this beauty is wearing a gorilla mask. “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?” the poster asks. Then, the answer: “Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art Sections
