Why Vienna Just Created an Onlyfans Account

A tip: it has something to do with social media censoring art

What do a nude painting by Rubens, Egon Schiele and a Venus statue have in common? They were all banned from social media for being “too naked”. To counteract that, the Vienna Tourist Board has now created an account on OnlyFans, precisely to promote those (nude) works of art.

Photo by Igor Miske on Unsplash

The new TikTok account of Vienna’s Albertina Museum is suspended and later blocked. The reason? A work by the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki was shown and that work showed a woman’s breast. The consequence? The museum had to create a new account. It was not the first incident; two years earlier the museum violated “the rules of Instagram” by posting a painting by Peter Paul Rubens (with a lot of nudity on it).

The Albertina Museum is not the only museum in the Austrian capital to have to deal with the strict rules of social media platforms. The Natural History Museum was thrown off Facebook in 2018 for showing a picture of the 25,000-year-old statue of Venus of Willendorf.

The Leopold Museum had the greatest difficulty in launching an advertising campaign for the collection of expressionist Egon Schiele (they were refused in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, for example). The campaign was finally…