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...show, titled "Pop Life," includes lots of explicitly sexual images, including large-scale photographs of Jeff Koons having sex with his ex-wife Cicciolina, a porn star turned Italian politician. But it was the decision to display the Shields photograph, which the museum had set up in its own room, that drew the most attention from British press before the show opened. It certainly offended Michele Elliott, founder of Kidscape, which campaigns against child abuse in the U.K. "What I see is an indecent photograph of a child being used to bring people into an exhibition," says Elliott, who filed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nude Brooke Shields Causes a Flap at London's Tate | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

CUSTODY AWARDED.To ILONA ("Cicciolina") STALLER, 43, sometime porn star and former Italian M.P.; of her two-year-old son Ludwig Maximilian by ex-husband JEFF KOONS, the American artist; in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1995 | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...late a certain desperation has entered Koons' output -- or so one might judge from a series of paintings and sculptures titled Made in Heaven. They depict Koons having various forms of sex with his wife Ilona Staller, the Italian porn star-politician who rose to fame under the name Cicciolina. The results range in size from small glass figurines to a photo-based mural. The centerpiece is an over-life-size carving of Cicciolina and her swain in rapture, like Adam and Eve, with a giant python curled around their plinth. As pornography, these works are inefficiently winsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princeling Of Kitsch | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

Staying in Congress. Cicciolina, the porn star elected to the Italian Parliament in 1987, surprised fellow lawmakers by quitting office. Although her letter of resignation acknowledged she was an "unwelcome presence" in the legislature, Cicciolina was only pulling a pesce d'Aprile, an April fish tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Kidding, Folks! | 5/6/1991 | See Source »

...national elections, no other candidate receives the coverage accorded Ilona Staller, 37. Under the banner of Italy's small Radical Party, Staller provocatively proclaims that "more pornography equals knowledge and nonviolence." But the flashbulbs really start popping at her rallies when Staller, a porno star better known as "Cicciolina," rolls down the top of her tight hot-pink dress and buttresses her rhetoric with a fulsome display of physical eloquence. While campaigning, the half-clad Cicciolina embraces many of her admirers. Her slogan: "Let's have pleasure. Let's spread happiness." Her pitch against nuclear energy: "I warm myself with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Just the Bare Facts, Signora | 6/15/1987 | See Source »

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