By creating a costume that can be taken off, even a ‘naked’ one, costume designers help create an important separation between the role and the actor.
Articles on Nudity
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Nudity can express everything from innocence to sexual desire, from triumph to defeat.
If companies can build systems capable of generating such imagery, they can also stop it being generated – in theory, at least.
Anthony Comstock’s decades-long censorship campaign ended up turning him into a laughingstock.
Does the tightening of sartorial standards at the film festival represent a cultural retreat, or a practical return to form?
Bianca Censori was not wearing nothing at the Grammys; she was wearing a dress that exposed everything. It’s an important distinction.
The art gallery can be a great place to talk about nudity with children. Here’s how to start the conversation, and answer their questions.
The way Lucy has been depicted in newspapers, textbooks and museums shows how today’s cultural norms influence perceptions of the past.
Book bans in Ron DeSantis’s Florida have censored beloved Australian author Mem Fox – for an illustrated character’s bath. But blanket nudity bans teach children bodies are ‘inherently sexual’.
When I began stripping off in the form of naked protest, I presumed there were no puritans left to object. I was wrong.
Facebook and Instagram were recently told by their parent company, Meta, to overhaul their policy on nipple exposure. But the change may not be as radical as people hope. Here’s why.
Often described as a sign of progressivism and gender equality, they’re neither.
A century ago, early British nudists had to fight for the right to publish naked photos – the similarities with social media today are striking.
Some critics are complaining that sex scenes have vanished from cinema. But they’re still very much present – in all their awkward, perverse glory.
Directors and audiences are becoming more comfortable with male frontal nudity. But what message does it send when almost all of the penises shown aren’t real?
Tempted to take your gear off at the beach this summer? Here’s what you need to know about nudity and the law to keep yourself … covered.
If we’re going to grasp what makes Eakins’ art so tragically powerful, we should be honest about the man who made them – and the impulses that drove him.
While parents are growing more concerned about their children’s easy access to porn, they often don’t realize just how ‘hardcore’ and violent it has become and how early their kids are seeing it.
The decision to remove a 19th-century painting because of its portrayal of naked women was a heavy handed way of making a valid point.
Mette Ingvartsen’s 7 Pleasures aims to upend
clichés about nudity. But the ‘confrontational’ use of nudity in dance and performance art is itself now something of a cliche.
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