Agnolo Bronzino @Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (2010)
by Jacob King (Originally published 2010) The first show ever dedicated solely to Agnolo Bronzino, the Italian Mannerist, is now showing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until April 18, 2010. With...
View Article10th Anniversary of TheGreatNude Magazine
TheGreatNude, an online video magazine focused on the Figurative Arts, celebrates it’s 10th Anniversary this year. Launched in 2007, the collection of content at www.TheGreatNude.TV is an expanding...
View ArticleGreat Nudes of “ArtSouthFlorida” Dec.2018 – Jan.2018
This is what I wait all year for, like a Hanukah/Christmas package just for me at the turn of each year in South Florida. Great Nudes all over the place in December and January. The best of the...
View ArticleTattoo’d Nudes at Emmanuel Fremin Gallery
Emmanuel Fremin Gallery is pleased to present Valkyrie Ink, an exhibition of new large-scale grisaille photographs by Reka Nyari This suite of 13 works is part of an ongoing portraiture project which...
View ArticleAlonsa Guevara @AnnaZorinaGallery
Alonsa Guevara – Espiritu At Anna Zorina Gallery, NYC Upon entering the gallery there is a palpable sense of lushness. A cacophony of colors and the smell of ripened fruit compete for influence on our...
View ArticlePromoting Your Nudes on TheGreatNude is SMART
TheGreatNude provides three SMART WAYS to promote your Nudes. Stop expecting social media companies to help you. Think about attracting visitors to your website with “Good SEO” tactics. See details and...
View ArticleJenny Saville at Gagosian
“I’m trying to see if it’s possible to hold onto that moment of perception, or have several moments coexist… Like looking at a memory. ” This quote from Jenny Saville encapsulates perfectly what she...
View ArticleDelacroix Drawings @Metmuseum
I was never a big fan of Eugéne Delacroix. His large narrative paintings were interesting from an art history perspective, but passionless in spite of the passion depicted with all the horses and...
View ArticleOBSESSION at the Met Breuer
OBSESSION July 3 – October 7, 2018 I had the distinctively awkward pleasure of attending the exhibition Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection which...
View ArticleRed Grooms @ Marlborough Contemporary
I had a chance to see a mini retrospective on the great America artist red Grooms, over at Marlborough Contemporary in Chelsea (NY). It was great to see some of his familiar works, spanning the length...
View Article“Drawing Salons” Offered To Galleries, Hotels For ArtBasel Miami
TheGreatNude is now offering a mobile “Drawing Salon” to promote and support Galleries and Art Events that feature Figurative Artists. A well-produced Drawing Salon in your gallery is a fresh, creative...
View ArticlePatricia Watwood: New Workshops in Figurative Painting
TheGreatNude’s Member Artists are in some instances world-class teachers on top of exhibiting professionals. Take Patricia Watwood for example. This busy artist is always on the go. This month, you’ll...
View ArticleThe Harlem Speakeasy Sketch Salon
This last October, on a crisp autumn evening, a handful of figurative artists gathered in a lushly renovated brownstone on a tree-lined street in upper Harlem. Janet A Cook, Costa Vavagiakis, Patricia...
View ArticleThe Nude Magician
Often, I receive emails promoting nudes of every kind from galleries and artists and fans of the magazine. Occasionally I am sent a link to watch a video that captures my fascination with Our...
View ArticleGallery: Norik Dilanchyan
Artist Statement: The human form always was the inspiration for my art. I am working in mix media, exploring and experimenting different materials, surfaces, and textures. My most recent experiment is...
View ArticleManhattan Art & Antiques Center, NYC, 2019
A springtime visit to New York City gave me the opportunity to drop in on some of the “local” arts venues and galleries of mid-town. The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center was just downstairs from our...
View Article“Evening” iPad Prints for Sale
Support THEGREATNUDE.TV with this purchase – This iPad drawing was started at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a visit to the American Wing. The sculpture, carved in marble in 1891 by Frederick...
View ArticleJohn Belardo, Creative Destruction: New works in clay and on paper
The Azarian McCullough Gallery at St Thomas Aquinas College is pleased to present a solo exhibition by John Belardo titled Creative Destruction. This body of work comprises new work in clay and on...
View ArticleAleah Chapin at Flowers Gallery, NYC, 2016
Figurative artist Aleah Chapin exhibits her newest paintings at Flowers Gallery. Interviewed by TheGreatNude publisher Jeffrey Wiener.
View ArticleInterview with Daniel Maidman at TheGreatNude Bash at the Roger Smith Hotel,...
Daniel Maidman, one of TheGreatNude Invitational’s exhibiting artists, spent the weekend attending our drawing workshops and attending our Sketch Party. During his drawing marathon, Daniel answers...
View Article“Bodies and Soul”: Interviews at Tria Gallery Opening Night, 2008
TheGreatNude.tv heads down to Chelsea to check out the “Bodies and Soul” Show running at Tria Gallery. Host Jeffrey Wiener interviews Tria partner Paige Bart, and the interviews artists Katheryn Holt,...
View ArticleInterview with Ted Lawson: Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, 2012
TheGreatNude.tv publisher Jeffrey Wiener visits the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery to meet artist Ted Lawson, who’s jaw-dropping figurative sculptures are on exhibit. Lawson’s work spans the range of abstract...
View ArticleRecreating Gustav Courbet’s “Bachante” in pencil.
When TheGreatNude.TV was first launched in 2007, the idea was to recreate famous “Great Nudes” from art history as a television series. Produced over 12 years ago inside Jeffrey’s tiny Hell’s Kitchen...
View ArticleMirror Doesn’t Love you Like This
Here’s a wonderful documentary video on Life Models and the process of posing for artists. Video by Jessie Parsons.
View ArticleThe Chesley Bonestell Documentary: I had a Hand in that!
TheGreatNude.TV: A Figurative Arts Magazine presents:I actually had a Hand in this documentary! Just my hand, drawing a model…, but what a performance! Many of you Movie Fans might be familiar with...
View ArticleAlice Neel: An Artist for the Woodstock Generation
TheGreatNude.TV: A Figurative Arts Magazine presents:(Originally Published Sept, 2011) This being the 40th anniversary of the “Summer of Love”, and of the concert known as Woodstock, The Great Nude...
View ArticleSketch Sessions: Amy, Reclining
The Great Nude.tv’s “Sketch Sessions” was conceived in the early days of the magazine, with an eye toward the Reality Shows that were being produced at that time. Staged in the small studio apartment...
View ArticleMarina Paulutskaya: Drawings in Catskill, NY
I had the pleasure of having lunch in Catskill, New York last week, at the “New York Restaurant”. Great food, seriously, but the real treat was seeing the drawings of Marina Paulutskaya, which were...
View ArticleSimon Dinnerstein: The Great Nudes
People who know me, know that I will travel great distances to see a “Great Nude”. Yesterday, all I had to do was travel to Park Slope, Brooklyn on a lovely Spring day to meet Simon Dinnerstein at his...
View ArticleA Collection of Nudes from Carole Feuerman
Back in 2007, with the launch of TheGreatNude.TV, Carole was kind enough to give me one of the first interviews I taped, inside her large hustle-bustle NYC studio, filled with Nudes and a small army of...
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