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Scuba

(53,475 posts)
Wed May 2, 2012, 10:52 AM May 2012

Hope this doesn't catch on - New Tour at Museum Reveals All

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/arts/design/australian-museum-offers-tours-in-the-nude.html?_r=2&ref=arts



Eventually, he said, he learned to conquer his fear by understanding it. He called the woman and got the date, and he took his fear workshops on the road. That led to the nude museum tours.

This tour finished with a glass of sparkling wine on an open terrace overlooking the Sydney Opera House. Asked if he had any plans to take his nude museum tours overseas, to the Metropolitan in New York, perhaps, Mr. Ringholt became animated.

“Imagine walking in there with all that armor” in that museum, he said. He loves the symbolism of masks, and a whole suit of medieval armor offered wonderful new metaphors.

As for the visitors, they seemed to be divided on the question of whether art was enhanced by viewing it naked.

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