By Ayesha Mir
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ABOVE PHOTO: A MODEL POSES FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AFTER BEING PAINTED AT COLUMBUS CIRCLE as body-painting artists gathered to brighten nude fashions as a part of an occasion that includes artist Andy Golub, Saturday, July 26, 2014, in New York. Golub says New York was the one metropolis within the nation that may enable his inaugural Bodypainting Day. (AP Picture/John Minchillo)
NEW YORK — When you’ve ever dreamed of standing bare in New York Metropolis with dozens of strangers whereas artists flip your pores and skin right into a murals, you could have missed your probability.
Sunday’s Bodypainting Day would be the last version after greater than a decade of artists turning nude our bodies into artworks.
Organizer Andy Golub expects greater than 50 folks shall be painted over 4 hours in Manhattan’s Union Sq.. Golub determined this yr’s occasion could be the final as a result of it’s time to “transfer on and clear that plate.” He mentioned he needs to search out other ways of empowering and bringing folks collectively, together with a brand new occasion subsequent spring.
After Sunday’s physique portray is completed, the taking part artists and fashions will march by way of Greenwich Village, pose for a photograph in Washington Sq. Park, journey a double-decker bus over the Manhattan Bridge and finish the day with a celebration in Brooklyn, Golub mentioned.
Golub, an artist, and free speech activist who’s been portray on nude fashions since 2007, began the annual physique portray extravaganza to underscore that nudity for inventive functions is authorized in New York Metropolis.
That hasn’t stopped police from attempting to halt the occasion. In 2011, Golub mentioned, he and two fashions had been arrested and detained for twenty-four hours, however the costs had been dropped as soon as authorities decided they had been doing nothing unlawful.
“You’ll discover there’s lots of people which were actually impacted positively,” Golub mentioned. “Largely fashions, but additionally artists, and feeling that they’ve come out of their pores and skin. And it’s simply been like a extremely constructive expertise of actually celebrating freedom.”
Previous iterations of the occasion have been held in Columbus Circle, Instances Sq., and different landmark places throughout the town.
All members, fashions and painters should be age 18 or older, however Sunday’s occasion was now not accepting functions.
