Eros

Some exhibits are merely allusive to sex but others are highly explicit, possibly shocking some viewers. “Eros is not always sex, but it is in no way pornography,” comments curator Ulf Kuester. Organizers of the show, mounted at the Beyeler Foundation museum at suburban Riehen, say it is the first ever to present such a range of erotica.

I’m Nude in New York!

self portrait, by Jennie I’m experimenting with color and different media at the moment…. At first I was embarrassed thinking of them as cheating or whatever, but now I am embracing the different effects you can create. I’ve splurged and bought a nice set of them which I am enjoying immensely.

Self Destruction

There are times, when everything is going particularly well, when I start going on a self-destructive bent. I’m not aware that I’m doing it, I just stop trying.

No Porn Please We’re Artists

Grow, who studied art in Italy and has displayed her work in New York and Philadelphia, initially took down all nine paintings…. Each is now adorned with an essay from the National Coalition Against Censorship that states nude paintings don’t constitute obscene material, which it says lacks serious social, political or artistic value…. She’s considering modifying the presentation to remove the brown paper and cover the “offending” parts of the painting, and maybe the eyes, with extracts from obscenity case law.

Warcrimes highlighted by Nudity

Now, Mr. Botero, 73, who lives in Paris and New York, has taken on an even more explosive topic: the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. Forty-eight paintings and sketches – of naked prisoners attacked by dogs, dangling from ropes, beaten by guards, in a mangled heap of bodies – will be exhibited in Rome at the Palazzo Venezia museum on June 16. “These works are a result of the indignation that the violations in Iraq produced in me and the rest of the world,” Mr. Botero said by telephone from his Paris studio.