*Naked in the news*

[ENFFan01]

Naked art lovers tour National Gallery of Australia in after-hours, adult-only viewing of James Turrell exhibition.

But for one young woman who took the tour, it really was all about the nakedness.

"We loved it... we did a naked cartwheel together, in the National Gallery of Australia," she said.

[ENFFan01]

Two more photos including full frontal from a female journalist's first-hand account of the National Gallery experience in The Guardian.

I too begin to strip: the dress comes off, the underwear soon after – until I stand, breasts, bum and bush in the breeze.

I shuffle nervously. There is nowhere to hide.

[ENFFan01]

A couple more pics from the Canberra Times featuring some nice female rear nudity - the second one seems to have been removed from the story for some reason so I can only get the lo-res Google preview image.

[Slick]

A company posted a fake article about their employees spending an entire month naked in the office as an April Fools joke.

thebolditalic.com/articles/7154-what-our-office-learned-working-naked-for-one-month-ironically-nsfw-
refinery29.com/working-naked-prank#slide

Slick

[Fango]

Woman flashes Google Street View

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3020958/Fun-police-gone-far-Woman-exposed-size-k-boobs-Google-street-view-CHARGED-disorderly-behaviour.html

Enjoy

Fango

[karaban]

So South Africa is in the process of getting its first nude beach, at a place called Mpenjati in KwaZulu Natal. It seems to be going pretty badly, pitting nudists against angry locals who think they're perverts and whatnot, but the upshot of all of this seems to be a fair amount of media attention. I won't bother posting a link, you can find dozens of articles by entering the name of the beach above, but I will post some pictures and highlight two videos of the beach's first day, both of which feature nudity:

hXXps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fYLES1u1Vk

hXXps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTUazb_7dIk

[KarlMalone]

Artist shoots nude photos in Opening Day crowd

“Cincinnati, you ready?”

That's what the home page of photographer Harvey Drouillard's web site asked the Queen City.

Drouillard is known for his “hit-and-run” public nude photos and he's brought the method to Cincinnati.

A group of nude people jump out of a vehicle and pose for a photo front of a public landmark. They then hop back in the car and drive off.

Drouillard's method isn't exactly legal, and he claims Cincinnati Police contacted him once his planned stop in Cincinnati made headlines. In the 21 years Drouillard's used nudity in public places, he said he's never consulted with police before beginning a project.

Cincinnati's rich history, including the art scene and brewing heritage, is what Drouillard says attracted him to the city. He's headed to Boston next.

Opening Day was Drouillard and his models' inaugural day in the Queen City. They made stops at the Skyline Chili and the Esquire movie theater.

Attached are pics from Detroit in 2013 from his site:

harveyphotos.co/recent-news.html

[KarlMalone]

The naked truth behind the unusual campaign featuring nude model

A teenage beauty has become famous for the scandalous behaviour of walking the streets naked – although it is for good reason.

Student Liana Klevtsova, 19, may have graced the cover of Vogue but now it seems she is more well-known as the face, and body, of campaigns for protest group Golaya Pravda (Naked Truth).

The aspiring catwalk model has been used by the activists for three controversial adverts, addressing high mortgage interest rates, fuel costs and the expense of public transport commutes in her home city of Irkutsk.

And, unsurprisingly, the images of her without any clothes on have gone viral around the world and attracted praise as well as criticism of her actions. Despite her sudden modelling fame, Liana said she has a greater interest in photography.

She said: 'I'm not a model. In my case it's simply a hobby that I like and there is no financial rationale. I'm studying, not working yet, and I am doing an internship related to my major. It is difficult for students to find a job without having any experience in the field these days.

'I went to a photo school and was doing a course in photography, but when we had the classes I noticed that I was not shooting models. Instead, I thought about what and how I would do it in their place. The reality was cooler than I expected.'

Liana first stripped off in December as part of a campaign to protest at high mortgage rates. Wearing nothing but a pair of red stiletto shoes and holding a passport in front of Sberbank, the advert states: 'I’ve paid off my mortgage'....

The second naked campaign, to protest against high fuel prices, shows Liana filling up a large off-road car next to a half-dressed man filling up his little car.

The photo shoot took place secretly at 3am. Initially the idea was to also have a fully-dressed girl riding a pink bike in front of the gas station.

Liana said: 'It was the pre-New Year boom coupled with fuel crisis when if you remember there were lots of car lining up at gas stations and constant news about the falling oil price.

'Then they said on TV that the rouble had dropped, that our country had given up a multi-billion debt to someone who you can't find on map instantly, and that we were going to provide Ukraine with cheap natural gas given that war veterans are being insulted there.

'Then someone called from Sberbank to notify us that a payment was overdue. It was the last straw. We represented it as the strength of Russian nation despite everything and we really wanted to show that we don't care about sanctions and the crisis.

'We wanted to send this positive message to people that nothing can bring us down, and the contrast of winter and naked body we had to show it.' She added: 'People are not ready to fight to lower fuel prices. It's easier for them to buy a smaller car.'

Her most recent naked campaign was to protest at the cost of public transport, with three photos of her and a bus driver.

The first photo depicts bus driver naked and a fully-dressed passenger, Liana, with a caption that reads: 'That's how it was'. The second shows a naked passenger and fully-dressed driver, and reads: 'That's how it will be.' The final photo depicts both fully-dressed, with the words: 'That's how it should be.'

According to the Golaya Pravda's social network page, they wanted to show solidarity with drivers and complain at rising prices.

The group states: 'There is a situation forming in the country that the problem of commute transport prices is becoming a burden on passengers and transport companies. However, this issue should be sorted at the highest level.'

[KarlMalone]

This Is What Happens When Art Students Recreate Famous Nude Masterpieces (NSFW)

Nudes are hot right now," photographer Matthew Leifheit mused in an email exchange with HuffPost. Leifheit has many titles, among them VICE photo editor and editor-in-chief of MATTE Magazine. Recently, he's taken on a faculty position at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, a role that's allowed him to better explore the beautiful and nefarious world of naked art.

The fruits of his labor are currently on view at SVA, in a pop-up exhibition titled "Artsy Nudes." For the project, he gave his participating students a simple prompt: choose any nude work of art from all of art history and recreate it. From Henri Matisse's "The Dance" to Diego Velázquez's "Rokeby Venus" to Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase," the appropriations breathed life into nude standards many hold near and dear to their hearts.

Some images appear remarkably similar to their historical antecedents, others take liberties to create a new photograph from an old painting. "I think reverse-engineering successful images to find out how they were made is a useful thing to be able to do," Leifheit explained. "My students are sophomores in art school, and I'd like them to be able to look at an image they like, be able to guess how it was made, and apply that knowledge to their own subject matter."

[KarlMalone]

Originally Posted by KarlMalone

Artist shoots nude photos in Opening Day crowd



Attached are pics from Detroit in 2013 from his site:

harveyphotos.co/recent-news.html

Here's a first-hand account of the Cincinnati shoot, but its behind a paywall.

Here is a gallery.