Public Nudes Not Vilified

Susan Loehn said her office had not received any complaints about the nudity and she did not anticipate prosecuting DeVries any time soon.“I love that it’s in such a public place,” she said.Geis said she considered the possible outcry before she arranged the exhibit and consulted the Northampton Arts Commission, a city board with appointed members…. Camner, a graduate student at Princeton University, called the exhibit intriguing.“It’s a very beautiful portrayal of human forms,” she said.Her parents, Sharon and Robert Camner, said they don’t have much public art in Tacoma, Wash., where they reside. They didn’t think the nudity in the exhibit was off-putting.Nude statues taken in stride- MassLive.com:It’s so easy to focus on all of the restrictions about nudes, the controversies and the censorship.

Nimoy’s Nudes

He knows that he is an unlikely champion for the size-acceptance movement; body image is a topic he never really thought about before. But for the last eight years, Mr. Nimoy, who is 76 and an established photographer, has been snapping pictures of plus-size women in all their naked glory…. Michelson Galleries in Northampton, Mass., through June; a larger show at the gallery is scheduled to coincide with the November publication of his book on the subject, “The Full Body Project,” from Five Ties Publishing.

Sometimes a Nude is Just an Unclothed Body

This had nothing to do with retaliation,“ said Richard Zuckerman, attorney for the school district, who was also individually named in the suit…. He got punished.”In 2005, school district officials sought to fire the tenured teacher, accusing Panse of bringing sex into his high school classroom and of violating district policy by offering students a figure-drawing class — which would include the use of nude models — off campus and for his profit…. An administrative law judge ruled Jan. 8 that Panse did violate the district’s no-solicitation policy but that district officials failed to prove that his talk of nude-model drawing rose to the level of sexual inappropriateness.

Scrubbing Sexist Nudity

Ms. Carey sent one of her letters to the director of the Queens Museumof Art, Tom Finkelpearl, who also used to run the City’s Percent for Art program, which supports public art. In an interview, Mr. Finkelpearl said that, while he does consider the statue’s imagery sexist, he thinks there’s nothing wrong with artworks stirring debate…. I think it’s great; that’s people responding to public art.“But as for spending public money to restore the statue, he said, that’s another matter…. ”I think it’s kind of perfect the way it is.“‘Fat Boy’ Vs. Feminists – July 20, 2007 – The New York Sun:This is an interesting debate that, for once, does not stem from the fact that the subjects are nude.

Force

Force – 21×36 Oils on Canvas by Jennieusually I am quite happy to talk about my paintings, where they come from, that they mean to me.. but this one, I’m just not ready to talk about it yet.