Mount Clemens asks art center to move nude statue

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By WSBT News1

Story Created: Jun 24, 2009 at 9:20 AM EDT

Story Updated: Jun 24, 2009 at 9:20 AM EDT

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) — A sculpture of a nude man has been removed from a public area in front of a Mount Clemens art center following complaints made to the suburban Detroit city.

The anatomically correct statue was moved inside the Anton Art Center.

City Manager Doug Anderson tells The Macomb Daily city officials felt the 7-foot-tall sculpture was too risque, especially with more than 300,000 people expected to come into town for this weekend's Stars and Stripes Festival.

Jennifer Callans, the art center's executive director, tells The Detroit News the sculpture is "not a misrepresentation or an erotic presentation of the body."

Titled "Walking Man," the sculpture was put in place on Monday and removed a day later.

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