In recent years, showing nude children has become more and more problematic, especially with photographs.
At issue are 7 of 175 photographs in the retrospective that depict partly nude children and homoerotic images.
She also claimed that the pictures of nude children legitimized pedophilia.
She directed her severest criticism toward the pictures of nude children.
The show is the last scheduled stop for the Mapplethorpe exhibit, more than 120 pictures that include photographs of nude children and homosexual acts.
She is best known for her fired clay figures of nude children that are realistically painted with casein paint.
She supports a nude, post-toddler-age child on her lap.
The subjects of some works included nude teenage children.
Centuries later, many painters created images of nude children that carried no religious significance.
Later during the investigation it was found the nude children in the pictures were Pandher's grandchildren.