Members of the Collectif des Modèles d’Art de Paris demonstrate in the Place de l’Hôtel de Ville. (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) PARIS — On Saturday afternoon, people trickled across the ...

This morning, Instagram curtailed the use of both the hashtags #artmodel and #fineartmodel. Content posted using the two hashtags, often used by live figure drawing models to attract work via the ...

Good morning. They're among the “blue-collar workers of the arts,” one figure-drawing model told Hyperallergic Staff Writer Isa Farfan, describing long days of holding difficult poses that are a feat ...

Over the years I’ve scrutinized, squinted at and visually dissected every inch of easily more than 100 naked humans. That’s because my passion is figure drawing, so I rack up a lot of hours staring at ...

Pencils and paintbrushes rise when Kelly removes her robe and perches on a wooden platform one recent Sunday morning. Each artist in the small group at the Arts & Design Society of Fort Walton Beach ...