Have you ever noticed that museums host an assortment of paintings and photos of nude women, but hardly any of men?
These noble internet troublemakers noticed...
An image of a naked delivery driver from Newcastle has been projected onto the side of Tate Britain in a bid to break the taboo of showing the male form.
But the stunt is not the product of the art establishment, 25-year-old Neill Richardson was dared to show off his body on a bragging website.
He sent in the picture - displaying his tattoos and behind - and it was (somehow) picked as the 'best' and projected 50ft tall onto the side of the famous art gallery. [Newslite]
While their intentions may not have been as heroic as some might suggest (they weren't out to "break the taboo" any more than they wanted to top a similar prank from 1999 that projected a naked Gail Porter onto the backside of Parliament), at least now people in the art world are discussing that controversial subject: the nude male form and the unspoken conservative suppression of it.
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