• Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout poses in front of his 'Domestikator' near the Centre Pompidou modern art museum, also known as Beaubourg, in Paris Tuesday after the Louvre Museum canceled plans to exhibit the controversial sculpture in the Jardin Des Tuileries as part of the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC). | REUTERS
    Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout poses in front of his "Domestikator" near the Centre Pompidou modern art museum, also known as Beaubourg, in Paris Tuesday after the Louvre Museum canceled plans to exhibit the controversial sculpture in the Jardin Des Tuileries as part of the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC). | REUTERS

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PARIS – In the end it was just too kinky for the Louvre.

The world’s most visited museum shied away from displaying a sculpture that some have labeled as too sexually explicit, but the nearby Pompidou Centre on Tuesday decided the world needed to decide for itself.

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