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 ...

Members of the Collectif des Modèles d’Art de Paris demonstrate in the Place de l’Hôtel de Ville. (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) PARIS — On Saturday afternoon, people trickled across the ...

Good morning. They're among the “blue-collar workers of the arts,” one figure-drawing model told Hyperallergic Staff Writer Isa Farfan, describing long days of holding difficult poses that are a feat ...

Pencils and paintbrushes rise when Kelly removes her robe and perches on a wooden platform one recent Sunday morning. Each artist in the small group at the Arts & Design Society of Fort Walton Beach ...

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 ...