Naked artist nails himself to Red Square in protest

A performance artist has been arrested in Moscow after stripping naked and nailing his scrotum to the cobblestones of Red Square in a protest. Pyotr Pavlensky, 29, reportedly sat for an hour and a half on the square on Sunday afternoon, with a nail driven through his genitals into the ground. via Pocket http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24896784#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa