Don Branagan takes great pride in his calendar and his busy schedule. As a full-time art model, he likes to book gigs as early as possible. But when COVID-19 hit, Don’s calendar suddenly dried up.

France’s professional nude models are fed up with stripping down for low wages in terrible conditions. A group called La Coordination des modèles has been fighting since 2008 to improve the working ...

Over the years I’ve scrutinized, squinted at and visually dissected every inch of easily more than 100 naked humans. That’s because my passion is figure drawing, so I rack up a lot of hours staring at ...

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The Artful Bachelorette. Even the name feels like a contradiction. A bachelorette party, typically a haze of cheap champagne and strategically deployed glitter, repurposed as an art class. But this is ...

This morning, Instagram curtailed the use of both the hashtags #artmodel and #fineartmodel. Content posted using the two hashtags, often used by live figure drawing models to attract work via the ...

The asymmetry in time and effort it takes human artists to produce original art vs the speed generative AI models can now get the task done is one of the reasons why Glaze, an academic research ...