Is That a Chicken on Your Penis?

Steven Cohen, eager to make a point that his country of residence, France, is more oppressive to artists than his native South Africa, staged a one-man demonstration at the Eiffel Tower in September. Wearing a bird outfit, tights and a garter, he had for some reason tethered a live chicken to his exposed penis with a long ribbon. After Cohen was arrested for indecent exposure, his lawyer complained her client had been kept in custody too long for such a minor charge. “France,” she exclaimed, “is throwing artists in prison.”