Australian Magazine Forced to Cover Up New York Artist's Nude

A strange footnote for Lisa Yuskavage's "Brood."

A piece of art by New York artist Lisa Yuskavage is making headlines Down Under.

VaultCoverThe ten-year-old oil-on-linen painting, “Brood,” depicts a naked, pregnant woman and connects on the cover of Vault to a profile of Yuskavage inside Issue #15. But about half the run of 7,000 print copies of the Australian quarterly is being distributed with yellow-dot stickers covering the depicted woman’s nipples, after newsstand distributor Gordon and Gotch expressed concerns. From a piece in the Sydney Morning Herald:

Vault editor Neha Kale said it was interesting that the issue revolved around a female painter painting a female figure.

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