U.S. artist Spencer Tunick, famed for his mass nude shoots, staged one of his signature installations atop a Woolworths supermarket car park in the suburb of Prahran on Monday.*
Although the temperature was sitting at a chilly 9-10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit), various media outletsreported somewhere between 300 and 500 participants showed up.*
The nude installation, dubbed Return of the Nude, was commissioned by Melbourne's PROVOCARÉ arts festival, and saw the crowd don rather Handmaid's Tale-like translucent red cloaks before their moment of exposure. And it almost didn't happen, thanks to Woolworths originally denying the artist permission for use of the site. Read more...