Renek Gaszewski [Blog]

“Gossip Girl” Leighton Meester has a wild side. And we’re not just talking about on the popular series in scenes with her GG character, Blair Waldorf’s, on-again, off-again lover, Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick). Read the rest of this entry »

The School of London has always posed a problem on this side of the Atlantic. The term was coined by the American ex-pat R.B. Kitaj for the 48 artists he included in a show called The Human Clay at the Hayward Gallery in 1976. Today we associate the term primarily with Kitaj, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, and Leon Kossoff. Of these artists, Bacon and Freud are of course the best known in the United States. Kitaj has hovered at the margins, a kind of literary curiosity that no one quite knows what to make of, while Auerbach and Kossoff have remained comparatively obscure. A major critical stumbling block has been the group’s inborn conservatism — having coalesced, as it were, at the moment the coffin lid was slamming shut on the art object in general and painting in particular. Kitaj’s criterion that the work in The Human Clay be exclusively “pictures representing people” was, for a Greenbergian, as intellectually bankrupt as a premise could get. Read the rest of this entry »

I am not a nudist, but I decided to try the Fifth Annual “Bare Buns Fun Run” advertised at the Nude Wreck Beach in Canada last July. The innocuous word “fun” seemed to balance the more threatening words, “bare” and “buns.” Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday we wrote about the final edition of the polish Elite Model Look. Competition won by 14-year old Dominika Łukiewicz. Young model, tries to fight at the next stage, which will be held in China. Most of you were not speaking gently, delighted her body and face. But why the virgins - the girl is only 14 years old!
I wonder, therefore, think about what finalistce Become a model contest organized by Bravo Girl. All participants defeated Angelika Baranowska, who will win the contract signed with the agency and the NEXT pictures soon go on trial in Paris.
Is this will be our next export goods? Let us hope that its not as starvation Anja Rubik…

The Red Deer Public School board has said no to nude models.
Art instructors at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School had proposed introducing a figure drawing course in the fall that would have required nude models posing for students.
The course was created and used by an arts high school in Edmonton, and the Red Deer school district had obtained permission to adapt it, said district deputy superintendent Pieter Langstraat.
But trustees decided this week not to allow the drawing component that requires unclothed models. While parental consent forms could have been issued for students young than 18, and the art classes could have been held before or after regular school hours, or in a secure location on the school site, the school board just wasn’t comfortable with introducing nude models to high school students.
Langstraat said trustees always ask themselves, when considering a new activity or field trip, whether it’s something they want for their students. And in this case, the answer was no, he added.