Painting With Women's Buttocks Sparks Outrage, Lawsuit In Englewood: Report

ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — A painting depicting a woman’s buttocks has sparked a response from local officials, which in turn has caused an art gallery owner to file a suit against the city.

Borghi Fine Art Gallery owner Laura Borghi could be fined up to $1,250 a day for refusing to obey a city order to remove the painting from the window, CourtHouseNews.com reported.

The city said the painting violates a 24-year-old ordinance that bans nude images except if they are housed in a room whose inside is “not visible from other parts of the premises,” according to NJLawJournal.com.

"The painting was not anything pornographic or offensive, even to children," Borghi said in an interview with NJLawJornal.com. "You see more on a plumber when he bends down."

Borghi said the town’s threat and demand violate the New Jersey and federal constitutions.

The gallery opened in 2007 and has displayed a number of exhibitions of contemporary painters.

“What’s going on in our society is a lot worse that what’s going on in my window,” Borghi said in the report.

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