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Nude model arrested in pic shoot at The Met in NYC

NEW YORK — It seems the only nudes allowed at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art are the ones in the collection.

Police say they arrested a 26-year-old woman who was posing naked for a photographer, and in full view of visitors, in the museum’s arms and armor department on Wednesday.

Model Kathleen “K.C.” Neill faces a charge of public lewdness.

Defense attorney Donald Schechter says the museum is full of nude art, and to call what the model and her photographer were doing obscenity “is ridiculous.” via…

I think this means we shouldn’t be expecting a Vanessa Beecroft retrospective there anytime soon

August 27, 2009, 3:59pm  

Verushka is one of my all time favorite models.  I am willing to bet most of your favorite fashion shots involved her, nobody could or will ever be able to pose like she can.  There is a great little blurb about her on style.com right now in celebration of her new book being published through Assouline.  She is also a scene stealer in one of the more iconic scenes in flim history (see photo) in the beginning of a truly classic movie that I suggest all of you rent/own/netflix/beg/borrow/steal.

July 22, 2008, 12:20pm