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Sleeping Beauty recreated in Kiev museum

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Ukrainian women, dressed in white wedding gowns, take turns sleeping on display in the museum for a couple of hours every day during a new art project called 'Sleeping Beauties' created by a Canadian-Ukrainian artist Taras Polataiko.

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Associated Press Visitors looks on a new art project Friday called 'Sleeping Beauties' in The National Art Museum in Kiev, Ukraine.

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Associated Press Canadian-Ukrainian artist Taras Polataiko looks at one of the Ukrainian women, dressed in white wedding gowns, who take turns sleeping on display in the museum.

Associated Press A visitor kisses a sleeping woman during a new art project called 'Sleeping Beauties.'

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A Ukrainian-Canadian artist is presenting an interactive art project called "Sleeping Beauty," in which five attractive young women take turns sleeping under dim lights in Kiev's top gallery, each under a pledge to marry the visitor who wakes her with a kiss.