A nude model who used a topless tour to convince cops not to shut down a racy photo exhibit at a Lower East Side gallery has been forced to cover up after the landlord threatened to terminate the gallery’s lease.
On the owner’s orders, the operators of the ROX Gallery have put a caution sign over a lurid picture hanging in their Delancey Street window that shows model Natalie White masturbating.
The sign is positioned to cover her vagina.
“The landlord said to cover the vagina in some way,” said ROX Gallery director Emerald Fitzgerald, who slapped a sign on the glass window. “He said he wanted to protect the community.”
The decision left White, 24, outraged. “I don’t believe in censorship, I don’t ever want to be censored,” protested White, who was shot by 25 different artists pleasuring herself for a photo exhibit called “Who Shot Natalie White?”
“We can’t show a beautiful photo of a woman’s torso?”
None of the other two dozen works inside the gallery has been censored, and White has not been banned from performing the live masturbation shows that are an occasional part of her act.