Nude Art news at Art News Blog is a listing of all the posts that have discussed art nudes, life models, male and female nudes, and naked photography, paintings, and sculpture.
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• Sarah Palin Nude - I know that many visitors to Art News Blog like nudes and politics, so here it is in one post: Sarah Palin nude! Chicago painter Bruce Elliott has come up with a novel way to get customers into his Old Town Ale House bar in Chicago with his nude Sarah Palin picture.
• Sex as Art or Just Porn - There's an exhibition on at the Barbican Centre of arts in London that explores the subject of Sex. "Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now" shows the porn art of Jeff Koons, Pablo Picasso, Nobuyoshi Araki, Francis Bacon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Rembrandt van Rijn, Andy Warhol and more.
• Cold Bare Bums for Global Warming - Nearly 600 naked people braved the cold on the Aletsch Glacier in Switzerland for the New York photographer Spencer Tunick recently. 600 people may not sound like much when compared to the amount of people that got naked for Tunick in Mexico, but the weather was probably a little more bearable in Mexico too!
• Spencer Tunick in Mexico - The American photographer and outdoor installation artist Spencer Tunick is looking for Mexicans that are prepared to jump into their birthday suits for an hour or two on the 28th and 29th of April. The location has not been announced yet, but it will be in Mexico City.
• Spencer Tunick in Germany - The New York photographer Spencer Tunick has recently encouraged up to 800 people to put their birthday suits on in Düsseldorf, Germany. Tunick used a monumental nude sculpture by Arno Breker and the Museum Kunst Palast as settings for his nude installations.
• Spencer Tunick Flesh Architecture - Not everyone knows his name, but I'm sure most people know the work of Spencer Tunick. He's the guy that gets thousands of people all around the world to take their clothes off in public places and pose for him, while he attempts to create his "flesh architecture".
• Spencer Tunick in Venezuela - The American photographer Spencer Tunick managed to get more than 1500 people in Caracas, Venezuela to shed their clothes and pose for him in his latest installation of flesh.
• Guggenheim in UAE with no Nudes? - The United Arab Emirates will soon have the largest Guggenheim museum to be built. The New York based Guggenheim Foundation currently has museums in New York, Bilbao, Venice, Berlin, and Las Vegas.
• Spencer Tunick on a Swiss glacier - Greenpeace and the New York flesh architect Spencer Tunick are encouraging volunteers to get naked on a Swiss glacier next month. Greenpeace Switzerland has a sign up page here for those that are interested.
• Photographer Spencer Tunick in Mexico City - The New York photographer Spencer Tunick recently broke his own record when he encouraged 17,000 Mexicans to take their clothes off and pose for him.
• Texas Art Teacher Sacked Over Nudes - I'm not sure if the nude incident is the whole reason behind the Texas teacher losing her job, but it's still interesting. Sydney McGee claims that she was fired after a complaint from a parent of a student, relating to a school field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art. He was concerned about his child seeing "an abstract nude", which was a 4BC Greek marble torso.
• Free Art Nudes if you Pose Nude - The artist "Johnny Naked" has a project where you can take home a piece of art for free if you agree to pose nude for him. Here's what happens..
• Kate Moss Sculpture - The UK model Kate Moss will soon be a 3 meter high bronze Kate Moss sculpture in a contorted yoga pose. Marc Quinn will enlarge his previous version of Kate Moss, which was done last year, and will show it at the "Beyond Limits" sale at Chatsworth House in September.
• Lucian Freud Kate Moss - Earlier I posted about Lucian Freud's Kate Moss painting, and the image used (shown on the left) probably wasn't very flattering, or maybe people just genuinely don't like Freud. I was just under the impression that everyone loved Freud, and that there was nothing to criticize about the man's work.
• Spencer Tunick in France - New York photography Spencer Tunick had the French naked with their legs in the air last week. Fifteen hundred French got their threads off in the French town of Lyon to participate in Spencer Tunick's latest nude fest.
• Spencer Tunick Nudes in Belgium - Nearly 2000 people put on their birthday suits in near freezing weather recently in Bruges, Belgium for the photographer Spencer Tunick. An estimated 1950 people braved the cold for the sake of art and spread themselves over the ancient cobblestones of the Belgian city, all completely naked.
• Lucien Freud's Kate Moss - An unusual portrait for Lucien Freud of supermodel Kate Moss, estimated to be sold for £2,500,000-3,500,000 / $4,500,000-6,500,000 at a Christies auction has sold for 3.93 million pounds ($7.32 million).
• Lucian Freud's Kate Moss Painting - Lucian Freud is arguably the greatest living painter of the human figure. His works command prices that reflect his respect in the art world and his painting of model Kate Moss will soon be up for auction.
• Fernando's Fat Women - Colombian artist Fernando Botero is holding one of his largest exhibitions ever in Singapore with more than 70 paintings and drawings and 36 sculptures on display. Singapore is aiming to be a hub for international art exhibitions and the government is spending $120USD over the next 5 years to promote the region as a "global arts city".
• Britney Spears Naked Sculpture - A nude sculpture of the pop star Britney Spears clutching a dead bear rug has been creating a bit of a stir recently. The work by Daniel Edwards, titled "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston" shows Spears naked, pregnant, and sensually bent over on her knees.
• Discount for buying art nude - "A gallery owner has created a stir by encouraging visitors to an exhibition of nudes to strip off to help them to feel closer to the art, he said today. Kevin Money, 39, is offering 25% off any purchases of works from the Bodyline exhibition at Gallery 39 in Swindon, Wiltshire, to anyone who bares all. But so far, local residents have shown an indifference bordering on hostility to the offer."