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    Gender in Comics: Supergirl's New S...  Jul 4, 2009
    She was shown in various states of undress, including a nude shower scene in Supergirl #6. The panels in Supergirl #6 are fairly indicative of how Supergirl s body has been used throughout her modern publishing history. (Suite101.com)

    Local belly dancing troupe has fun, gets exercise and donates to worthy causes  Jul 2, 2009
    stategirl wrote on Jul 1, 2009 1:51 PM:" I did not say martial arts, I said MIXED martial arts. UFC, Pride, cage fighting. The kind where you can end up a beaten, bloody mess.Last time I looked, when you belly dance you are wearing a top, and a skirt. You see significantly less on people at the local pool. So the dancers aren't technically "half nude"; their stomachs are exposed. ". boxergal wrote on Jul 1, 2009 1:49 PM:" OH my God, I am so laughing at this. I have this horrible, horrible image... (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)

    Party celebrates China Web filter delay  Jul 2, 2009
    With the image filter off, even though searches with words such as "nude" are blocked, a hunt for adult Web sites threw up links to soft and hardcore pornography sites, including one with a video of full penetrative sex playing on its front page. "We are very happy because we got what we wanted," said Liu Yaohua, a 27-year-old artist. (MSNBC -- Technology)

    I'm (not) Gonna Live Forever  Jul 1, 2009
    Farrah Fawcett attempted to remind people she was still around after her initial splash in the '70s by having plastic surgery, among other things, and appearing nude in Playboy. Michael Jackson, who had numerous plastic surgeries and other "treatments" to his skin and body, was rehearsing for a "comeback" when he died of an apparent prescription drug overdose. (Townhall.com)

    Bill Brandt : Over 50 Images by One of the Twentieth-Centurys Greatest Photographers  Jun 29, 2009
    Brandt was a regular presence in the great photographic magazines of the time, particularly Picture Post and Lilliput, but also published numerous books including The English at Home (1936), A Night in London (1938), Literary Britain (1951) and Perspective of Nudes (1961) ... Brandt is known for documenting Britain and its people the rich and poor, the celebrated artist and the unknown miner but also for his idiosyncratic nude studies that obsessed him from 1951. (AbsoluteArts.com)

    Dressing up the MFA with the look of the stars  Jun 27, 2009
    Scaasi famously dressed Streisand for the 1969 Oscars in a sequined, peek-a-boo pantsuit that gave the illusion that the actress was nude underneath. (It was lined with flesh-colored fabric. (Boston Globe)

    Apple Gives 'Porn' App the Boot"Hottest Girls" app had been approved but is now unavailable in the U.S.  Jun 26, 2009
    "Hottest Girls," an iPhone application that shows photos of nude woman had been approved by Apple's App Store but is now not available in the U.S. (ABC News Photo Illustration) ... Developer Allen Leung had proudly told Macenstein, "We uploaded nude topless pics today. This is the first app to have nudity.". (ABC News)

    Duchamp exhibit  Jun 24, 2009
    It was in the United States that Duchamp first made his mark on modern art even before his arrival, thanks to the explosive reception of Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) at the 1913 Armory Show. (Harper's Magazine)

    Late 19th Century Scenes of Summer  Jun 22, 2009
    A passionate realist, Eakins further insisted on use of the full nude figure in Life Drawing classes for male and female students ... Eakins 1885 The Swimming Hole is an unabashed early use of the male nude in American art. (Suite101.com)

    Artists paint without green in Hall of Flowers  Jun 21, 2009
    "You can't always find a nude person," Ballard said, smiling. "But you can always find a naked flower.". (San Francisco Chronicle)

    A half-century buying spree  Jun 20, 2009
    In the 50 years since its first purchase was revealed - Godfrey Miller's abstract canvas Nude And The Moon in December, 1959 - the society has purchased 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs and installations, spending a total of $7. 5 million for works which have since risen in value to an estimated $17 million. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    When public and private collide  Jun 16, 2009
    Some used their work e-mail addresses or attached nude photos of themselves. Many of them said things that they would not want friends, family, co-workers or even casual acquaintances to know, and all of that information is now available on a public, and widely publicised, website. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)

    Nude, Mona Lisa-like painting surfaces  Jun 16, 2009
    Museo Ideale Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci may have painted his famous Mona Lisa in a number of styles including nude ... Leonardo da Vinci, in a Renaissance version of Mad Magazine, may have painted his famous Mona Lisa in a number of ways, including nude ... The nude portrait will now undergo scientific and artistic investigations in an attempt to date the work and determine its author. (MSNBC -- Technology)

    Battle over game  Jun 5, 2009
    Nude photo auctioned A revealing photograph of France's first lady, Carla Bruni, was bought for $19,600 by an anonymous bidder yesterday at a Berlin auction house. The image is one of 10 prints of a nude Bruni captured by American fashion photographer Pamela Hanson in 1994. (Boston Globe)

    'Vida y Drama' works retain their feel of mass impact  Jun 5, 2009
    s Senz belonging to a series of works inspired by colossal Olmec sculptures, and an unusual reclining nude depicting Siqueiros's wife, the Uruguayan poet Blanca Luz Brun. The other nude of interest - in fact, the only other nude in the show - is Rivera's depiction of his wife, Frida Kahlo, propped on the edge of a bed, posing with her ankles crossed and her hands up behind her head. (Boston Globe)

    'Viva Mexico!' shows how Edward Weston was transformed  Jun 5, 2009
    "Excusado" is one of several well-known Weston images in "Viva Mexico!" Others are his almost giddily moon-faced portrait, "Rose Roland (Covarrubias)"; pear-shaped "Nude, Anita Brenner"; and "Galvan Shooting." Weston's friend Manuel Hernandez Galvan had been a general in the Mexican Revolution ... In its ability to achieve powerful ideological effects with the simplest of means, her "Manos de trabajador, Mexico" (Worker's Hands, Mexico") shows her affinity with the contemporary Mexican muralists... (Boston Globe)

    Broadway: Retro style  Jun 5, 2009
    Sure, there's the first act nude scene (done in subdued lighting) and talk of pot smoking, draft dodging and homosexuality. But after decades of change, it's all pretty mellow. (Sioux City Journal, IO)

    Nude Carla Bruni photo auctions for $19,600  Jun 5, 2009
    The image is one of 10 prints of a nude Bruni lounging in an unmade bed captured by American fashion photographer Pamela Hanson in 1994 ... Last year, Christie's auction house in New York sold a different nude print of Bruni for 30 times more than anticipated. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)

    Nude Madonna fails  Jun 4, 2009
    A nude painting of Madonna and ex-husband Guy Ritchie failed to sell at a Scottish auction. The painting, the work of Peter Howson, depicts an overly muscular Madonna lying nude while Guy Ritchie looks on. (iAfrica.com)

    Contrasting shades of Zara's Spring Summer designs  Jun 4, 2009
    The in thing this season are ensembles teamed with similar nude tones or pieces worn with contrasting neutral colours like grey. To a large extent, colour coordination remains the key, and must-haves include blazers in base tones which look great worn over a shift dress. (The Star Online, Malaysia)

    Stolen Renoir turns up near Venice, after 15 years  Jun 4, 2009
    In September 2008, police in Italy, acting on a tip from an art critic, recovered a Renoir nude stolen 33 years earlier from a private collection in Milan. Three suspects were arrested. (Yahoo! Asia News)

    Nude Madonna fails to stir interest  Jun 1, 2009
    A painting of pop diva Madonna in the nude with her ex-husband, film director Guy Ritchie, flopped at an auction ... au/news/entertainment/arts/nude-madonna-fails-to-stir-interest/2009/06/01/1243708382337. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Bucket Of Spitzer  May 28, 2009
    "Well," she says, "it's not like I'm sitting there naked onstage. I do appear, as Eliot, in a shirt and black socks. Hmm. Maybe I should be nude.". lect. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Saturday's TV: New Tricks  May 28, 2009
    For example, some of Weston's most evocative nudes evolved from Charis deciding on the spur of the moment to throw herself naked down a sand dune. Cheetah Man. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Room With Askew  May 28, 2009
    The pungently atmospheric staging is by Austin Pendleton, who makes a few missteps: The actors parading through the side and rear aisles suggest a constant stream of latecomers, while a lengthy, full-frontal male nude scene the other night elicited loud gasps from an elderly audience. VIEUX CARRE Pearl Theatre Company, 80 St. Marks Place; 212-598-9802. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Success of abstinence in cutting teen pregnancies is a 'myth'  May 27, 2009
    " In Britain, experts say that the Government missed its target of cutting the under-18 pregnancy rate by 15 per cent from its 1998 level in spite of the 150 million campaign to reduce pregnancies among young girls. It was also likely to miss its target of halving teenage pregnancies by 2010, probably achieving a reduction of about 17 per cent. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1535684/Success-of-abstinence-in-cutting-teen-pregnancies-is-a-myth.html External Links More on Advertisement... (Yahoo News -- Birth Control)

    'Only a matter of time before terrorists use weapons of mass destruction'  May 26, 2009
    A one-winged duck, a zombie's eyeball, and people in nude suits. An archive of 50 million images from the second half of the 20th century. (Yahoo News -- Biological and Chemical Weapons)

    He made despair glamorous, but was Francis Bacon truly great?  May 24, 2009
    In paintings like "Lying Figure" (1969), "Triptych - In Memory of George Dyer" (1971), and the Matisse-like nude "Henrietta Moraes" (1966), Bacon set up thrilling tensions between the rectilinear areas of flat, unmodulated color he used for his backgrounds; the liquid, bulging outlines of his figures, which cast shadows like spilled blood; and the scumbled, layered brushstrokes he used to convey flesh. The commentary on Bacon focuses always on the flesh. (Boston Globe)

    In Lesley Dill's installations, words and images coalesce  May 23, 2009
    "White Threaded Poem Girl" (1996) features a photo of a nude woman covered with the white, bold letters of Dickinson's line "I took my Power in my Hand. . ." The letters glow on the woman's dark skin, echoing the way Henna shines on the bodies of Indian brides. The image hangs high on a 13-foot length of tea-stained silk. (Boston Globe)

    Daniel Phillips exhibit regards the video monitor as a painting  May 20, 2009
    Still, "Drawing With Light" captivates beyond the light show; in it, the nude artist interacts with a couple of paintings, setting his own figure against the ones on canvas. It sounds cheesy, but it turns out to be startlingly effective. (Boston Globe)

    Blood, elephants and naked cyclists  May 20, 2009
    To the bizarre: Belgian director Felix can Groeningen cycling nude up the Croisette ... And, Belgian director Felix can Groeningen raised eyebrows last week by cycling nude through the city to promote his film "La Merditude des Choses.". (CNN -- Showbiz)

    Woman who lost gems fears release of nude pics  May 20, 2009
    During the confrontation, the man threatened to expose the nude pictures if the victim lodged a police report. They were staying together prior to their break-up recently. (The Star Online, Malaysia)

    Heat wave blankets Bay Area  May 18, 2009
    Across town, along the Embarcadero's waterfront, Bay to Breakers (known by nude runners as "Bare to Breakers") was barely registering in the minds of out-of-state visitors Keith Marotti, 57, a scientist at Pfizer Inc., and his wife, Hope, 57. The couple, residents of Kalamazoo, Mich. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Some trends are fresh off (last year’s) runways  May 17, 2009
    At the top of her list right now would be jumpsuits, animal prints or items that are nude, sheer or shiny. Lame gold, silver or copper is hot, according to Doris Raymond, owner of Los Angeles vintage store The Way We Wore, with older formal pieces getting a modern makeover as daytime or restaurant-nightclub wear. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)

    OZ TV AIRS NEW TORTURE PHOTOS  May 16, 2009
    Others yet to be released reportedly show military guards threatening to sexually assault a detainee with a broomstick and hooded prisoners on transport planes with Playboy magazines opened to pictures of nude women on their laps. The images emerged from Australia where they were originally obtained by the channel SBS in 2006 in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal. (The Drudge Report)

    Palin decries attacks on Miss California  May 16, 2009
    Questions about her work with gay marriage opponents and nearly nude photos taken of her when she was a teenager had put her title in jeopardy, but pageant owner Donald Trump decided to let Prejean keep her state crown. Palin says she respects Prejean for staying true to her beliefs and can relate to her "as a liberal target myself.". (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    Graphic Abuse Photos Emerge  May 16, 2009
    the Telegraph, photos not yet released reportedly show "military guards threatening to sexually assault a detainee with a broomstick and hooded prisoners on transport planes with Playboy magazines opened to pictures of nude women on their laps." The American Civil Liberties Union has sued for the release of up to 2,000 photos. UPDATE: Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Patrick Ryder that these images appeared in Wired magazine in February of last year. (CBS News)

    Miss California And "Hate Groups"  May 16, 2009
    Prejeans anti-same-sex marriage comments during the Miss USA competition caused a stir and, along with semi-nude photos of her that surfaced since, put her title in jeopardy ... "But at the same time, I think it's wrong to start screaming that you're being persecuted and then you go and align yourself with organizations like NOM that are particularly -- I consider them hate groups. (NOM is) the National Organization for Marriage, which opposes same-sex marriage. Moakler, Miss USA in 1995, is... (CBS News -- Early Show)

    A young Alma  May 16, 2009
    She realized that the big model money was for posing in the nude. Popular local artists were willing to pay well for the opportunity to paint Alma in all her glory. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)

    CAN'T STAND THE HEAT? TRY SOME SUMMER ART  May 15, 2009
    You wouldn't mistake him for a modernist like Rodin, but he was good at his job: His supple nude "Diana," which caused a riot of controversy when unveiled in the 1890s, is still bootylicious today. (June 30-Nov. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Craigslist 'erotic' ads still drawing fire  May 14, 2009
    They posted nude photos of the girl on Craigslist and claimed the girl was 19, according to the FBI.. In 2007, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin demanded Craigslist take responsibility and remove child prostitution ads. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

    KOREAN COOL AT TRADE SHOW  May 14, 2009
    The Nude Toaster, By S Park Ltd.. The secret behind this see-through toaster is a glass coating called "ATO Plus" that prevents warping or other damage even in extreme heat. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Double standard on gay marriage answers (36)  May 12, 2009
    patriot wrote on May 11, 2009 12:46 PM:" curmudgeon, let me clear up my use of the term, "hollywood type", how about "elitist hollywood type". I have also lived in L.A. I am also glad you are proud of your Helena roots. So your only gripe is that I used that term. And gun961960, what the heck does the divorce rate have to do with maintaining the sanctity of marriage. I am just opposed to gay marriage. Whether or not Ms. Prejean has posed nude or has breast implants is not relevant to her... (Helena Independent Record, MT)

    To see The Limits of Control’  May 9, 2009
    Paz de la Huerta (Choke ) also deserves mention for her part as the Nude, who as you can guess, is always naked. She s an annoyance of a character. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)

    Court reinstates Yahoo lawsuit over fake profiles  May 9, 2009
    A U.S. appeals court on Friday reinstated a breach of contract claim against Yahoo Inc by an Oregon woman who said the company failed to remove nude photos and fake profiles posted by her estranged boyfriend after promising to do so ... The Yahoo profiles included nude photos of Barnes and her boyfriend taken without her knowledge, her office phone number, email and address and "open solicitations" for sex, the opinion said. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    'Little Ashes': Tortured Artist, By Kurt Loder  May 8, 2009
    " We see the boys recumbent on a beach, Dal? with his head propped on his friend's thigh as Garc?a Lorca reads his poetry aloud. There's an artsy nude moonlight swim that with only the tiniest of adjustments could be converted into a cologne commercial. And there's a spectacularly lurid interlude in which Garc?a Lorca, desperate to demonstrate an acceptable manliness, has sex with a woman on a bed while Dal? watches (possibly masturbating, not sure) from a dark corner of the room. For a movie... (VHI.com -- Music News)

    - Voice: Glorifying an eyesore 0  May 7, 2009
    Would it be just as acceptable to paint pictures of nude bodies fornicating, label it art and paint it where the public has no choice but to see it. I think not. (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)

    Racy Pic May Cost Miss Calif. Her Crown  May 7, 2009
    Sources Say Pageant Officials Mulling Move After Web Site Posts Semi-Nude Image Of Her ... They say she may have violated her contract by posing semi-nude as a model, and also by working -- without the pageant's permission -- for a group opposed to same-sex marriage, reports CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy ... So her good Christian life includes nude pictures, breast implants, and demeaning gays. (CBS News -- Early Show)

    Russian Art Market Shaken as $3 Million Painting Joins List of 900 Fakes  May 7, 2009
    5-inch painting which features a nude woman reclining in bed ... The catalog for the sale says Odalisque appears to have been based on a charcoal drawing, Reclining Nude, dated 1915. (Bloomberg -- UK)

    Music stirs a change of art and courage to go naked  May 6, 2009
    She is his first nude. "It's a secret wish. I've always wanted to paint the naked female form. I told her I'd really like to see her body." Her reply. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    Project Gallery open  May 5, 2009
    In addition, Victoria Rowe Berry, director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, noted that the Tippetts wasn t an appropriate venue for nude or adult-oriented works. They needed someplace where there was freedom of expression, Rowe Berry said. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)

    Hilton Als: Eugene O’Neill on love triangles.  May 5, 2009
    No Place Like Home: The Theatre: The New Yorker. Eugene O Neill on love triangles. (New Yorker)

    Hilton Als: “Merchant of Venice,” at BAM.  May 4, 2009
    A Man s World: Critic's Notebook: The New Yorker. It s common knowledge that Shakespeare s plays were first performed with all-male casts; it wasn t until around 1660 that a female actor was used. (New Yorker)

    Safe "sexting?" No such thing, teens warned  May 4, 2009
    Teens sending nude or suggestive photos of themselves over their mobile phones are being warned -- "sexting" can damage your future ... In the United States, a survey last fall found one in five teenagers said they had sent or posted online nude or semi-nude pictures of themselves and 39 percent said they had sent or posted sexually suggestive messages, according to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy ... Teenage actress Vanessa Hudgens, star of the successful "High... (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    The Limits of Control: Hitman of Your Dreams  May 2, 2009
    " In today's economy, who is going to complain about a boss with a tendency to wax philosophical? As Lone Man makes his way from Madrid to Seville and then into the countryside toward his wealthy target, American, aka the Man (Bill Murray, who starred in Jarmusch's lovely Broken Flowers), he encounters a cast of characters who trade boxes of matches with him and pass on more tidbits of instruction along with commentary on art and culture. There's Guitar (John Hurt), Mexican (Gael Garcia Bernal)... (Time.com)

    Movie Review: The Limits of Control  May 1, 2009
    When a nude woman (Paz De La Huerta) offers him her body, he refuses: "Never when I'm working." Only music and the visual arts appear to soften his forbidding exterior. Through the film, visual and aural motifs are repeated as mantras, disconnected phrases that apparently mean something. (Suite101.com)

    * Plus ça change ...  Apr 29, 2009
    From these details we have sections devoted to still life, and landscape and the nude and most of the iconography of the painting of the time. TT: Does the exhibit really bring home the idea that these modernist artists were influenced by the Renaissance tradition. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)

    'Highly intimate' photos and video of Carla Bruni with ex-lover stolen from Paris flat...  Apr 29, 2009
    Last year, just before a state visit to Britain, nude pictures of Miss Bruni 00004000 , a former model, were released. Since then she has been trying to tone down her image. (The Drudge Report)

    NYC spring art auctions will be smaller  Apr 28, 2009
    5 million), Matisse's "Nude With a White Towel" ($2 million to $3 million) and Miro's "Study for Figure" ($300,000 to $400,00). Lebworth's mother, Alva Gimbel, purchased the Giacometti in 1959, a year after it was cast. (AZCentral -- Business)

    Interrogation a sleepless, terrifying ordeal  Apr 18, 2009
    Detainees were shaved, stripped and photographed nude. The questioning began mildly, a shackled detainee facing a non-threatening CIA interrogator. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)

    Creating art worlds all their own  Apr 15, 2009
    Mathias Schmied starts with a page from Playboy showing a nude, then he cuts the page in ribbons down to the outline of the model's body, and it makes an eyelash-type canopy that protectively drapes her. There are a dozen artists in "microwave, seven," and most make work that will make you squint and marvel. (Boston Globe)

    Exhibits highlight two great colorists' different methods  Apr 12, 2009
    When Michelangelo went to visit Titian, the great Venetian painter who was in Rome working for Cardinal Farnese, Titian had just finished painting his lustrous nude "Dana?.". It's easy to imagine how tense this meeting would have been. (Boston Globe)

    Cocktail Cove an example of what is left when the party ends  Apr 12, 2009
    Marketing numbskulls who made calendars with nude women holding microchips and idiots who commissioned paintings and then took out ads to brag about it continued to preach their failed marketing viewpoints to any business that would listen. The use of arrogance and pomposity as a marketing strategy lingered well after the bubble burst in a hangover that would rival anything anyone ever experienced at Cocktail Cove. (Athens Banner-Herald)

    Students look inward, create self-representing artwork  Apr 7, 2009
    The portrait depicts Baerenrodt-Hayspell (senior-science) as a nude wearing a crown like the Statue of Liberty's. "Jesse's is a really interesting take on things he is interested in as a science major," he said. (Daily Collegian, PA)

    Not Your Average Man Cave  Apr 6, 2009
    The same could be said for the financial adviser's art choices, including serene angel-wing artifacts bought on his travels, and a wall-sized Judith Larsen print of a zebra-striped female nude from Boston's Rhys Gallery. Says Amaral: "It's great to have a masculine apartment, but you need to recognize women as well." Number one on that list is longtime girlfriend Stephanie Weimer. (Boston Globe)

    Four Key Trends for Spring Summer 2...  Apr 6, 2009
    Find them in feminine silky fabrics in soft nude neutrals or bold brights of tangerine, fuschia pink and buttercup yellow. Keep your dress short if there is a lot of detail on the top. (Suite101.com)

    When the body is a canvas  Apr 5, 2009
    Delica explains that while body art is normally painted on nude skin, the team had to find a way to improvise for the show in Malaysia. She says, Of course it would be easier to paint on bare skin but we managed to find a skin-tone lycra-type fabric for the models to wear. (The Star Online, Malaysia)

    First Friday exhibits include Patrice Helmar's photography  Apr 4, 2009
    Barbara Craver's nude, on display at the Canvas. Photo Courtesy Of Rob Roys. (Juneau Empire)

    On Paris runways, the mouths roar  Apr 2, 2009
    Eyes were nude, with not even a trace of mascara. Belgium-based Dries Van Noten sent out lips in citrus shades, from tangerine to blood orange. (Boston Globe)

    Madonna takes David home  Apr 2, 2009
    Fokofpolisiekar, Foto Na Dans, aKING, Nude Girls and more highlight Belville's music legacy. Madonna takes David home. (iAfrica.com)

    Professor bases poems on real life experiences  Apr 1, 2009
    "They had been looking at a painting of a nude, and out of the innocence of a child, her daughter wasn't seeing a nude," Davis said. "She was seeing a frog. Then she asked if she could take the painting into school.". (Daily Collegian, PA)

    The Buzz: Edun founder talks pop-up fashion  Mar 30, 2009
    Clary Sage owner Cazzato has carried Edun since opening her store last summer, alongside other organic/eco labels and skincare, including Hewson's Nude line. "San Francisco of all cities just has a propensity, is just driven toward these kinds of issues - and drives them," Hewson said. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Romance And Celebrity In The Art World  Mar 28, 2009
    The co-director, who worked with Spencer Tunick (the photographer known for his shots of masses of people in the nude), noted that this documentary ultimately serves as an exploration of dynamics between men and women. Paul had felt that, in this relationship with this super star artist, he had suddenly lost his identity and he wanted to get it back. (CBS News)

    The strangest book titles of the year  Mar 28, 2009
    That was a bumper year for odd titles nominees included "100 Years of British Retail Catering" and "50 New Poodle Grooming Styles" but the runaway winner was "Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Nude Mice.". Publishers are not allowed to nominate their own books, so as to prevent them from giving books willfully odd names. (International Herald Tribune)

    Library's mudflap girl campaign turns heads (151)  Mar 26, 2009
    Launched in the fall of 2007, the six-month campaign featured the silhouette of a nude woman reading a book -- a toned-down variation of the image commonly seen on truck mudflaps ... I have a problem with nude stickers on vehicles where it is out in the public for my children to see ... There is not the slightest suggestion that the image is nude. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)

    Magazine photos test child nudity protocols  Mar 25, 2009
    the magazine criticised by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd last year for carrying a photo of a nude schoolgirl on its cover, has published more naked images to test the Government's guidelines aimed at protecting children. But editor Maurice O'Riordan said yesterday the three pictures of nude girls had been found to comply with the Australia Council's "children in art" protocols, even though they were starker than last year's image. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)

    Nude paintings of Irish PM surface  Mar 25, 2009
    Nude paintings of Irish PM Brian Cowen have appeared in two Dublin galleries, media reports said on Tuesday. A portrait of Cowen holding his underpants was left in the Royal Hibernian Academy while one of the taoiseach seated on the toilet ended up in the republics National Gallery, the latter within a stones throw of the prime ministers office in central Dublin, the BBC News website reported. (India Times, India)

    Unauthorised nude paintings of Irish PM removed from galleries  Mar 25, 2009
    It could be described as oil on canvas featuring taoiseach, but the appearance of nude paintings of Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen in two Dublin galleries has seen the police called in. A painting of Mr Cowen holding his underpants appeared in the Royal Hibernian Academy and one of him pictured on the toilet ended up in the National Gallery. (BBC News -- Europe)

    Ben Kingsley's Elegy  Mar 22, 2009
    Kingsley shares his only semi-stable female relationship with Patricia Clarkson, who is strong as always (with a rare nude scene at age 50; and wow, does she look great). As the poet friend says, "Beautiful women are invisible; we're so dazzled by the outside that we never make it inside.". (Suite101.com)

    10 Favorite Sculptures  Mar 22, 2009
    Composed of five partially nude, muscular men working a huge metal press, it was created in 1899 by the prolific Bay Area sculptor Douglas Tilden. Commissioned by James Donahue in memory of his father, Peter, who founded San Francisco's United Iron Works, the monument was dedicated in 1901. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)

    Nice and sleazy  Mar 21, 2009
    Wenham's preparation has involved subjecting himself to three weeks' worth of The Jerry Springer Show, "countless hours of the most shocking, repellent, hilarious and totally unbelievable TV you can imagine. And not only the free-to-air episodes but the uncensored pay-per-view stuff, where by the time the 'guests' engage in their physical altercations they are usually totally nude.". It's been an education in more ways than one. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    'Portrait of a Beauty': gender-bending fantasy  Mar 21, 2009
    The thing is, the real-life Hyewon (born Shin Yoonbok) - who created controversy by painting nude commoners enjoying their carnality rather than the usual still lifes, nature or royal portraits - was most definitely a man. It's as if Hollywood made a movie about Rembrandt, except that he was really Cate Blanchett in Dutch Masters drag. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)

    The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins  Mar 20, 2009
    Vanessa Beecroft is the art star whose work - she's given to live tableaus of nude women posed motionless in a vast gallery space - has been exhibited around the world. Madit and Mongor are the Sudanese twins, motherless children left by their impoverished father to the care of a small village orphanage. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    A sweeping look at Chinese contemporary art  Mar 20, 2009
    In many others, such as Yuan Yunsheng's celebration of graceful femininity, "Nude With Twin Babies," we glimpse signs of a courageous new emphasis on individual expression. In tenor, the show is very different from "Mahjong," which reveals a generation of artists making full use of new freedoms and confidently exploring a host of mediums, from ink painting and installation to performance and photography. (Boston Globe)

    Professor Wrestling: Rourke At WrestleMania?  Mar 20, 2009
    No Playboy In the past few years, WWE has had a deal with Playboy where one of the Divas would pose nude in the magazine. I haven't seen that pitch so far this year, as WWE is sticking with its rumored pledge to be rated PG only. (TheSanDiegoChannel.com, CA)

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