Soliloquy VII, an eight-foot photo by the artist Sam Taylor Wood

Soliloquy VII, an eight-foot photo by the artist Sam Taylor Wood of a nude man lying on his back — had been taken down. Was it because the hosts were afraid that the combined sweat from several hundred menopausal society ladies would cause the photograph to melt? Or because they feared that after a few glasses of sherry the women might become hysterical and claw at the models' glossy skin with their bare hands until it was naught but a pile of shiny ribbons?