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American TV networks felt the need to blur out the breasts on a £113 million painting

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America felt the need to censor a painting on TV
Free the painted nipple (Picture CNBC)

Nipple censorship strikes again, but this time it’s not Instagram.

And it’s not actually a real woman’s nipple.

Nope, this time round American TV networks are finding a famous painting too pornographic to show to the public in its full glory.

One of Amedeo Modigliani’s paintings, from his Reclining Nude series, made the rounds on the news after it became the second most expensive painting ever sold at auction, when a Chinese business man snapped it up for a cool £113 million.

More than one viewer was left confused by the news coverage when CNBC and Bloomberg decided to blur out the breasts and suggestions of pubic hair.


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