An art gallery owner in west Wales remains unbowed by complaints to police over nude artwork and has opened an entire exhibition of naked portraits.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
An art gallery owner in west Wales remains unbowed by complaints to police over nude artwork and has opened an entire exhibition of naked portraits.
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Friday, February 18, 2005
Skirts, shirts, pants, underwear and stockings all ended up stashed in plastic bags by the bar as the patrons got naked for the monthly "Clothing Optional Dinner." "It's exciting to be in a restaurant nude," said George Keyes, 65, a retired junior high school English teacher.
Nude yes, but not unadorned.
Keyes, a lifelong nudist, wore a necklace, earrings and a black leather "genital bracelet" with red studs. And white sneakers.
The dinner was started by a group of New York nudists who wanted something a bit more elegant than the wilderness getaways and beach resorts they generally frequent.
"When you go away on holiday it's more you're roughing it in the woods, whereas this is a really nice restaurant," said Keyes, a member of gay nudist group Males Au Naturel, or MAN.
Monday, February 14, 2005
Police ordered naked cyclists to get their gear back on in Auckland yesterday, after arresting their leader for alleged indecent exposure.
Even so, motorists were treated to a "21-bum" salute, equating to the number of scantily-clad but helmeted cyclists who rode from Symonds St to Karangahape Rd to protest against the world's dependency on oil-fuelled transport.
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Saturday, February 12, 2005
A bill encouraging women and girls to go topless at California beaches and parks could be introduced this week in the California Legislature," a conservative group is warning.
The Campaign for Children and Families is lobbying against the "drop your top" proposal -- even before the legislation is introduced.
As the Los Angeles Times recently reported, a lawyer's group is pressing for a "topless sunbathing" bill at the request of a female attorney who insists that it is sex discrimination to allow men, but not women, to go topless in public.
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Wednesday, February 09, 2005
LONDON (Reuters) - A nude portrait of pregnant supermodel Kate Moss by one of Britain's most renowned artists, Lucian Freud, sold for 3.93 million pounds ($7.32 million) at a London auction on Wednesday.
Auction house Christie's said an anonymous telephone bidder bought the near-lifesize painting, "Naked Portrait 2002," which had been estimated to fetch up to 3.5 million pounds.
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Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Sunshine might stop certain cancers from growing, including skin cancers, according to two new studies.
One found it helped beat the deadly skin cancer malignant melanoma. The other found the sun helped with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. It could be down to the vitamin D made by sun-exposed skin, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reported.Experts warned too much sun could cause cancer and advised people to protect themselves against sun damage.
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