‘I thought, I can’t keep living with this shame’: five life models on the power of posing nude What is it like to be in a room full of artists who are observing and drawing your naked body? Sitters discuss the freedom and healing they have experienced Craig, 54 ( @tattooed_nude ) I started life modelling 18 months ago. My mum said: “You’re getting all these tattoos and no one gets to see them.” That triggered something in me. I’ve always loved art and I wanted to see how artists would resp… ‘Most important, most beautiful, most musical’: Bagpuss set for big screen return Stop-motion animation voted the UK’s all-time favourite kids’ show will be rebooted with the ‘saggy old cloth cat’ now busy mending in modern Britain More than half a century has passed since the BBC aired 13 episodes of the story of a somnolent pink-and-white striped cat which cemented Bagpuss’s place in the annals of TV history. Now Bagpuss, “the most important, the most beautiful, the most mag… |
Parody, Punk and ‘Terrorist Drag’: Inside the World of Vaginal Davis She has come a long way, from the scrappy Los Angeles scene to working with prestigious museums and universities. Britain’s National Gallery Expands Collection to 20th-Century Works The museum, renowned for its collection of paintings from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, has announced a plan to collect more recent paintings. |