The other aspect is that there is some power in trying to take control of the manner/time/place in which you are objectified.

I agree completely, but I also think that it’s not really taking control of your own objectification when there’s literally a man asking you to get naked for the sake of your own empowerment. The artist’s identity matters here.

It would be slightly less ridiculous if he solicited men and women. But only slightly.

Yeah, I think this picture is from his previous work. That said, some women have “franks and beans”—and some men don’t.

I see a lot of “woman gets nude to protest something or other” (especially on the HuffPo, which loves to cover those stories) but do not understand that. To me, women are already sexualized and treated as objects for men to gawk at rather than listen to, so “I’ll just get naked and that’ll show them” misses the mark…

Oh cool, white dude asking 100 women to pose nude for difficult-to-decipher performance peice about “the sacred feminine” for a bunch of people who are already too dense to give a shit about women. Thank you, smart arty man, for figuring out how to communicate for us! We should’ve just been holding up mirrors and…