BY BLAKE HANSON
You're watching multisource U.S. news analysis from Newsy.
Several artists suited up -- in their birthday suits -- in the heart of New York.
The awkward sight had a serious message.
The Wall Street Journal reports...
“Some artists got naked on Wall Street during a performance art piece — and then they got arrested. ...Artist Zefrey Throwell organized the 5-minute piece, which he said was a social critique of Wall Street and involved dozens of volunteers acting out the motions of people at work. He said it was a rehearsed performance ‘with the very specific aim of public education.’”
So just what message were the artists trying to send?
CNN reports....
“They said it was all in the name of, you guessed it, transparency. The NYPD had another name for it: exposure, and made three arrests. ”
New York Magazine says despite the arrests and the very public stunt -- it didn’t appear to achieve much...
“...whatever their message was, it seems to have been lost on the assembled gawkers. As Tolstoy once said of art, ‘it is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.’”
Regardless of criticism or legal troubles, DNAinfo had some fun with the story, writing...
“These people really did lose everything on Wall Street.”
Artist Zefrey Throwell paid respect to his performer’s “sacrifice” ... and bailed them out of jail.
'Like' Facebook for updates in your news feed.
Get more multisource video news analysis from Newsy
Transcript by Newsy
 |  |  |  |
