Imagine walking into a museum filled with patrons and disrobing in front of everyone. Deborah De Robertis is a performance artist who is known for exposing her genitals in front of people and paintings, but its not because she is an exhibitionist. While the room stares at her, she gazes
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Laws everywhere prohibit nudity and people get arrested for public indecency if they are caught naked in public. However, there is a grey area when it comes to body paint, where people are not always arrested. The article discusses cases of when people covered in body paint were arrested and
DISCLAIMER: Video is graphic, although censored, does display partial nudity. This is Milo Moire, a Swiss performance artist. She is a feminist that promotes that women choose when and how they should be touched, which is what motivated the piece above. In London she was arrested (Full Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3657439/Controversial-performance-artist-arrested-inviting-strangers-touch-naked-breasts-genitals-Trafalgar-Square-women-s-rights.html) for
Martha Wilson is an American feminist and an accomplished performance artist. Throughout her career, she has developed a number of photographic and video works that explore her individual femininity through such performances as role-playing. Much of feminist thinking and activism has stemmed from the question of what women want. More
The Pirelli Calendar is kind of a big deal. It was created fifty years ago by the tire company as an artsy way to advertise their products. It is known for capturing images of beautiful women in the nude, one for each month. By portraying beauty standards throughout the years,
The nude figure has been used to express ideals of beauty and human qualities in Western art for many years. While art history has shown us nude paintings and sculptures of both men and women, male nudity is less accepted and highly controversial. In downtown Ney York, Rivington Design House
Miley Cyrus has come a long way from the country-grown Hannah Montana star that America fell in love with. The official declaration of the new Cyrus was established with her infamous 2013 VMA performance, where she donned a racy leotard and did questionably inappropriate things to Robin Thicke with a
Miley’s recent photo-shoot with Terry Richardson for Candy Magazine received negative feedback from mainstream audiences who were quick to judge the provocative images. When taken at face value, the undeniably promiscuous images are shocking and offensive. Some of the images feature a nude Miley smoking a cigar, licking her armpit
What would you do if you were going around the city to find a nude woman straddling the roof of a building? Would you consider it art or a crime? Earlier this month (November 2015), performance artist Poppy Jackson confused many by her four hour long performance, “Site,” that was
Spencer Tunic is a Contemporary photographer famous for his projects involving hundreds, or even thousands of nude volunteers posing for him in public. Tunic claims that, “These grouped masses which do not underscore sexuality become abstractions that challenge or reconfigure one’s views of nudity, privacy and the environment.” Tunic shot