Objects of Censorship

As part of the V&A’s Performance Festival on the theme of censorship, I gave a talk on the history of sensibilities around nudity in sculpture, as told through the story of the fig leaf used to cover Michelangelo’s David. Hosting in-situ in the V&A’s Cast Court, by the V&A’s plaster cast of the sculpture in question, and the detachable fig leaf, I told a story connecting morality, art, and nudity over the last six hundred years.