76 YO Arnold Schwarzenegger Explains How Bodybuilding as an ‘Artform’ Struggled to Find Place in a Prestigious New York Museum



Bodybuilding has been considered a conventional sport after a long struggle. Controversies regarding its overall outlook thoroughly change over time. Even still, could people in earlier days of bodybuilding consider it as a form of art? Did the audience and the society any way wanted it to have that social position of esteem? Let us look at how Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s personal experiences answer this.

Bodybuilding: The Art Form in the 1970s deemed ‘odd’ by Schwarzenegger


In his latest interview with The 92nd Street Y, New York, Arnold Schwarzenegger was featured to talk about various aspects of his life and career as a whole. The bodybuilding legend began with a recollection of 1976 when he was suggested to talk with Whitney Muesuem in order to represent bodybuilding as an art form. 




He recalled, “People at the Whitney Museum said, ‘I don’t know if anyone would show up, to be honest with you. This is a little bit odd. Even though we do odd things here in the Whitney Museum, but this is a little bit too odd.”




But what Schwarzenegger confessed afterward shocked everyone. He precisely remembered how things did not go as expected. Arnie stated, “There was like, thousands of people lined up outside to get in. And of course, they couldn’t get in but I mean so they took out all the chairs that they had and everyone was sitting on the floor.”

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