Kanye West rarely makes public appearances since being outed as an antisemite, among other things, in 2022. He showed up to the Grammy Awards this weekend with his wife Bianca Censori, whose outfit, a mesh dress with nothing underneath, caused quite a stir.

The Australian model was reportedly making a statement about simplicity and provocation, her friend told the Daily Mail, and Censori apparently doesn’t “think the look was inappropriate at all.” Besides, Censori said, “classical art was full of obscenity. Obscenity does not come from a nude body but from an obscene mentality.”

A friend reminded me of an important point this weekend. When we think about obscenity or the point at which nudity becomes art, the helpful example is to think of a Playboy magazine cover and a classical painting like Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus. You can compare the two at length and certainly justify why Botticelli’s work has more artistic flair than a Playboy bunny’s photograph, but, really, you don’t need to go that far: Our minds are able to differentiate between the two easily. It’s not an obscene mentality that makes Censori’s naked appearance on the red carpet inappropriate and gross — it’s the human instinct that tells us when something is inappropriate and gross.