Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I don't know about you, but I've always been curious about whether weird stuff ever goes down in art classes that involve nude ...

Nineteen-year-old Elizabeth Sandridge had never seen a nude male body before. And having someone walk into one of her art classes, disrobe and stand naked before some 20 students wasn't quite the way ...

Blank canvases fill the intimate space of an art studio, which is focused on a wooden stage in the front of the room. Students are propped up in their seats waiting to begin class. Charles Coffman ...

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 ...

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 ...

France’s professional nude models are fed up with stripping down for low wages in terrible conditions. A group called La Coordination des modèles has been fighting since 2008 to improve the working ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After Kent Van Dusseldorp turned 50, he wanted to shake up his life a little. Did he buy a cherry-red sports car? Did he sign up for the Peace Corps? Did he enter a profession that ...