Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art’s eyebrow-raising new exhibit have been getting a little too grabby with the show’s naked performers — earning some the boot.
Female performers in Marina Abramovic’s “The Artist is Present” have complained about groping, while other models say they have been pushed, prodded and poked.
Without giving specifics, MoMA yesterday acknowledged it had had trouble with visitors stroking the live art.
“We are well aware of the challenges posed by having nude performers in the galleries for this exhibition,” the museum said.
“Any visitor who improperly touches or disturbs any of the performers is escorted from the museum by MoMA security.”
An unspecified number of patrons have been ejected for groping performers since the exhibit opened on March 14, but none has been arrested, and there have been no calls made to 911.
The exhibit features 38 performers in rotating shifts of eight facing each other at a doorway or lying under a skeleton or posing in other pieces, mostly in the nude.
One performer, Amelia Uzategui Bonilla, told The Post last week, “We have a way to let security know if we’re having an emergency, but we’re all prepared for discomfort. You just have to suck it up!”
She said the oddest thing she experienced since the retrospective of Abramovic’s work began was seeing a man drop a scallion beside her as she lay under the skeleton.
“He said he wanted to add a little bit of life” to the work, Bonilla said.
Guards asked him to leave.
“It can be a little sketchy,” said Matthew Rogers, 31, who teaches Pilates when he’s not on display on the sixth floor. “Sometimes, there’s that feeling like, ‘Oh, this is a little gross,’ and then it’s gone.”