nudity

Laura Eades’ one (naked) woman show takes us to the Moon, Mexico, Singapore and Leeds.

Quick, quick: it’s your last chance to get hold of tickets to this weekend’s Skin Exposed event at Wellcome Collection – a “two-part ‘skin-posium’ to explore nakedness in all its guises” as they say. Friday is literary and Saturday is delightfully multidisciplinary. Call 020 7611 …

Photo / NealHumprhis Remember all those forthright assurances that the full body scanners at Heathrow, introduced a month ago, wouldn’t be misused by airport staff? Looks a hollow promise now that a security guard is under investigation for allegedly leering at a colleague’s body as …

sw2guy A report from the City of London Corporation in response to calls to enlarge the men’s nude sunbathing area on Hampstead Heath will reportedly crush naturist hopes for room to swing a sunbed at the men’s bathing pond. The report will be presented today …

After an inspection by the Met’s obscene publications unit, the photograph of a nude, heavily made-up Brooke Shields, at age 10, has been removed from an exhibition at Tate Modern. A day before the Pop Life show opens to the public, the photograph, which was …

By Mike King Here’s something for the weekend if you’re an uninhibited exhibitionist cyclist with an anarcho, greenie streak or one who has always longed to get their bits out in public: whip that kit off, adorn your body in amusing motifs and (gently) mount …

Ahh, we love a good naked headline here at Londonist. Sadly, the nuns in question don’t appear to in the wimple wearing habit, but when did such factual frippery slow us down? To the real story then: 18 members of Capital NUNS – a London …

The Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park opens today and there is much hoo-ha elsewhere about money and art, the market, the business and the meaning of it all especially during the current financial crisis (can we still call it that or has it settled …

Hampstead Heath is famous and well loved for many things; its outstanding natural beauty, the swimming ponds, shagging and tramps being gifted million pound plots. It’s also the only place in London that men can legally sunbathe naked, in a special enclosure by the Men’s …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 24th September 1917: A zeppelin drops a 50 kilogram bomb that lands just outside the Bedford Hotel on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, central London. 13 people are killed and a further 26 injured. Tuesday – 25th September 1818: …