The Naked Truth, a photographic & video survey of 50 years of Voyeurism, Nudity and Sex, curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel opened today at the housprojects gallery on Howard Street, Soho, NYC.
There are the classic couplings of Bert Stern & Marilyn Monroe, David La Chapelle & Amanda Lepore and Herb Ritts & Madonna. But some of the most powerful images are from artists I was less familiar with, like Marla Rutherford’s Spring Cleaning above. And that’s the whole point to going to see art– to be moved, to be affected, disturbed. To find something new.
The show is up until July 17.
Not your mama’s still life: In the back of the gallery, not part of the Naked Truth show, maybe a show going up later, or one that had yet to be taken down, breathtaking work by an Australian artist named Marian Drew.
