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Naked, not nude

Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.

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Performance art, frozen in time

For over a year, live performance art with an audience present has been largely impossible. But still images continue to allow artists in this sphere to inspire audiences at home.

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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science

From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.

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Sun salutations and yoga synthesis in India

Surya namaskars, or sun salutations, have a long history in South Asia, but their place at the heart of modern yoga is more recent.

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  • Two gay men in an art gallery looking at a painting of a female nude. Colour process print after Caport, 195-.
  • Two gay men in an art gallery looking at a painting of a female nude. Colour process print after Caport, 195-.
  • A seated female nude figure and a male nude figure punting in a boat. Crayon manner print by J.B. Lucien, 1798, after P.T. Le Clerc.
  • A male nude model being drawn by the life class at the Royal Academy in London. Etching by C.W. Cope, 1865.
  • A male nude seated before a life class at the Royal Academy in London. Aquatint by J. Bluck after T. Rowlandson and A.C. Pugin, 1808.
  • Head and neck of an écorché figure, seen from behind, and small sketch of male nude in action. Red chalk and pencil drawing, by C. Landseer, 1815.
  • Legs of a nude male model; a standing man holding a palette and another seated drawing in a sketchbook; a fourth is seen from behind. Pencil drawing.
  • A line-drawn male nude figure with one arm leaning against a surface and his head turned representing an advertisement for two discussion groups organised by Kursiv on the occasion of the International AIDS conference in Berlin. Photocopy, ca. 1993.
  • Two male nudes in the same pose, with a raised right arm, seen from the front and the back. Engraving.
  • Human reproduction and gestation: foetuses and the male and female reproductive systems in cross-section, and three nudes. Photograph, 1920/1940, of eight framed bas-reliefs, 18--?.
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