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From http://ridavio.com/
Two years ago Angelo Musco started production on Tehom. I documented one of numerous photo shoots that took place in a private pool on a penthouse rooftop in Tribeca. It was a beautiful day and the small cast of models was upbeat and very creative that afternoon. After months of shooting, Angelo would continue work for two years creating an underwater world with an architecture of tens of thousands of nude human bodies. As he explains in the video, Tehom comes from a Hebrew word in Genesis signifying the great deep of the primordial waters of creation. The final piece will stretch 48 feet long and 12 feet high with some figures reaching nearly life size. As I edited the action from above the water and cut it with the photos Angelo was taking below the surface I attempted to evoke the feeling of Tehom, the deep, as seen in the details from the final work toward the end of the video. Tehom exhibits at the Carrie Secrist gallery in Chicago, opening May 1 and running through July 10, 2010.From http://ridavio.com/
Two years ago Angelo Musco started production on Tehom. I... more
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NEW YORK — Museum patrons know that touching the art is a no-no — and that means live, naked performers too.
Several nude models who are featured in Marina Abramovic’s new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art have complained of being groped by some patrons. The museum has declined to talk about specific incidents, but acknowledged that it has had problems with some visitors touching performers.
“We are well aware of the challenges posed by having nude performers in the galleries,” the museum said in a statement. “Any visitor who improperly touches or disturbs any of the performers is escorted from the museum by MoMA security.”
One performer, Will Rawls, told The New York Times that a patron brushed his hand chest and back “and then touched my butt.” “As he was passing me he looked me in the eyes and said ’You feel good, man,’” Rawls said.
Rawls said he notified a security guard and later learned that the man’s 30-year membership was revoked.
Despite the incidents, all the performers said they enjoyed what they are doing, though some visitors have expressed discomfort.
The exhibition, which opened March 14, includes nude performers standing in a narrow doorway facing each other as visitors squeeze between them. Elsewhere, two clothed people touch fingertips, two others sit back to back with their hair entwined and a naked woman reclines with a skeleton (not a real one) on top of her.
The Yugoslavian-born Abramovic, 63, is a performance art grande dame who has pushed the limits of physical endurance since the late 1960s. In front of audiences, she has taken medication that made her lose consciousness, and stabbed herself repeatedly in the left hand.
The exhibit is called “Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present” — and she is. Abramovic sits on silent display while the museum is open. Members of the public are invited to join her, silently, across a small table.
The exhibition presents a view of Abramovic’s career over four decades and her work in a variety of mediums, including performance art, installations, sound pieces, video works and photographs.NEW YORK — Museum patrons know that touching the art is a no-no — and that... more
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Gordon College, a Christian college in Wenham, MA, recently modified it’s Art program when they developed a curriculum that includes the study and rendering of the undraped human figure.
Gordon College Art Department representatives say that the rationale is to work respectfully with the human figure attempting to bring honor and glory to God in the process.
So what is your take on this:
http://artlessonsfromgod.com/2009/12/10/should-christian-art-students-study-the-nude-figure/Gordon College, a Christian college in Wenham, MA, recently modified it’s Art... more
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Molly Crabapple is a Brooklyn based artist, comic, illustrator and former nude model. As an illustrator, her work has been featured in the pages of Marvel Comics, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Playgirl. Her artwork, which she describes as a "Where's Waldo for perverts", has appeared in The Museum of Sex, the Deitch Art Parade and Miami's Art Basel.
Check out www.revelinnewyork.com for more videos and for Molly's personalized city and culture guide to New York.Molly Crabapple is a Brooklyn based artist, comic, illustrator and former nude model.... more
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Gorgeous Israeli super model Bar Rafaeli graces the July 2009 issue of Esquire Magazine. On the cover, Bar's naked body is covered with the contents of a Stephen King novel called, ironically enough, Morality.Gorgeous Israeli super model Bar Rafaeli graces the July 2009 issue of Esquire... more
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“Perils in Nude Modeling” is a short film by Scott Rice, which tells an offbeat love story that won top prize at HBO’s U.S. Comedy Arts Festival and was nominated for a Student Academy Award Oscar in 2003. The strangely abstract film is a combination of suspense, comedy and existential allegory. “Perils in Nude Modeling” tells the story of a young man in a prestigious art school’s take-no-prisoners drawing class. Teetering on the verge of expulsion, the student must choose between his life-long ambition and love. The young man races frantically against the clock as he tries to stay one step ahead of his sadistically imperious teacher, all the while trying to avoid the seductive call of the gorgeous nude model standing in the center of the room.
This piece includes a number photographs and the acclaimed short film, “Perils in Nude Modeling.”“Perils in Nude Modeling” is a short film by Scott Rice, which tells an... more
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"From Rodin and Courbet's naked muses and lovers to Degas's clinical study of the female form, the nude has always taken pride of place in French art.
But Paris is now being accused of showing such philistine ingratitude to its life models that scores went on strike yesterday, taking to the streets to pose naked in freezing temperatures to shame the state.
In front of the tastefully decorated Christmas trees outside Paris city hall's culture department, the naked and goose-pimpled models demanded a pay increase, proper contracts and, most of all, respect for their craft as they held trade union banners in the pose of Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People.
The disrespect shown to the models was "proof that something is badly wrong with French society", shouted one shivering male model through a megaphone. Artists, students and art teachers sat sketching them in support.
"This is a craft that should be respected, not just anyone can take their clothes off and hold a pose," said Deborah, 28, one of the strike organisers, who has worked as a full-time life model for four years. "It is artistic and physically demanding work."
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Nude protesting is the best kind of protesting!"From Rodin and Courbet's naked muses and lovers to Degas's clinical... more
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