NBC News: Vienna's museums turn to OnlyFans to promote lewd art

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After having gotten content strikes from Facebook, Instagram and TikTok for posting artwork depicting nudity, the Vienna Tourist Board is turning to OnlyFans to highlight the explicit works of art on display in the city’s museums. 

On its OnlyFans account, the city's tourism board freely posts images of artwork by Egon Schiele, Richard Gerstl, Koloman Moser and Amedeo Modigliani — whose paintings conventional social media sites had labeled as inappropriate and “pornographic.”

OnlyFans is known for allowing creators to post sexually explicit content for their paying subscribers, and early subscribers to ViennaTouristBoard are eligible for a city transportation card or a free ticket to view the works “in the flesh” at one of the city’s museums, according to the tourism board.

In a statement on its website, the tourism board said the city has been home to artists “whose works pushed the boundaries of what was considered acceptable in art and society at the time.”

The art that was censored over 100 years ago continues to be censored online as social media platforms crack down on explicit content, according to the site.

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Social media accounts for some Austrian museums, such as the Albertina and the Leopold Museum, have been flagged or suspended for posting artwork containing nudity.

The Albertina was suspended from TikTok in July, and later banned, for posting videos featuring the works of the artist and photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, whose subjects were often nude women.

Instagram’s content policy says “nudity in photos of paintings and sculptures” are allowed, but in 2019 the platform flagged the museum’s post featuring a painting by Peter Paul Rubens as a community violation. 

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Spokespeople for TikTok and Facebook, which owns Instagram, didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

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