To be nude or not to
01/10/03 20:17 Filed by Saswat Pattanayak in:
Political
The official resentment against nudity has been
hitting news of late. Most recent is at the Nevada
County's Rood Administrative Center.
The Union has a complete story:
Nudes are accepted at the Sistine Chapel in Rome,
the Louvre in Paris, even Crocker Art Museum in
Sacramento. But five area artists discovered
Saturday that the naked human body isn't quite as
welcome in Nevada County's Rood Administrative
Center.
The artists each contributed a painting for the
month-long Annual Open Studios Art show which opens
tonight at the government building. While the works
of 60 other artists will be visible, those five
artists will not be allowed to display their works.
The five nude paintings were pulled Saturday
morning as the show was being set up by Nevada
County Arts Council representatives, at the order
of Tom Coburn, Nevada County's general services
analyst.
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