A row has broken out after a life-drawing class in north London was told its nude models should wear clothes following complaints. Organisers of the daytime class have accused “puritanical” Hampstead ...

Adrian Gillan no longer feels embarrassed – or even nervous – when he takes off his clothes in front of strangers.

A life drawing class at the Boston Figurative Art Center (photo by Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Aaron Bogan, a professional art model and illustrator originally from New ...

Tens of thousands of years ago an aspiring artist picked up a piece of charcoal and drew an image of another early human being on the rocky wall of a cave. Across the millennia that followed people ...

In the Before Times, I had occasionally gone to life-drawing classes: part social activity, part attempt to improve drawing skills. I would say I sort of enjoyed them; I liked the atmosphere, the ...

Alida Pepper was staring down depression. Stuck in her apartment in San Francisco, she worried that all the plans she’d made were about to unravel. For months, Pepper, a full-time life drawing model, ...

Mr Lim Kim Hian keeping still for a pose during a life drawing session at the Arterly Obsessed art studio on Jan 21, 2026. (Photo: CNA/Ooi Boon Keong) In my years as a journalist, I have interviewed ...