Nude Model Wants A Naked City

Zach Hyman's latest nude subject is stealing the headlines from him. Today the NY Post talks to the 26-year-old Kathleen Neill, who was charged with public lewdness when she stripped down in the Metropolitan Museum's Hall of Arms and Armor. She wants the prudes in this town to lighten up, and told the paper, "I want people to have the freedom to express themselves. I want the city to drop the charges. I would love to be able to go to museums and see stuff like this happen on any scale." Since it's already legal for women to walk around topless in New York, maybe next year's topless march should focus on the full monty.

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By Jen Carlson in News on August 28, 2009 10:18 AM

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Tim

I am gonna get naked at McDonalds!

NannyState

If it's a 'moment', I say go with God. If it's an agenda, I say "arrest the asshole!"

Snoopy

Isn't that being somewhat selective of her body parts? I mean she also showed her boobs and other unmentionable parts. Shouldn't they be arrested also?

NannyState

Well, they should certainly be manacled :)

Mr. Know-It-All

"I want people to have the freedom to express themselves. I want the city to drop the charges. I would love to be able to go to museums and see stuff like this happen on any scale."

Yeah. Thanks for sharing, dingbat. Do you mind if I'd rather NOT go to museums and see stuff like this happen--on any scale--whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean? I go to art museums to see ART, not self-absorbed airhead dingbats "expressing themselves," which, by the way, contrary to modern popular opinion, is not anything like the same thing as making art.

HOTCUP

yeah, the human body is beautiful or whatever.

you're a freaking model. i'd rather the fat slobs of this city not have absolute freedom to express themselves as you have.

go to jail.

Steven

Americas act like little babies.

Teddie Boy Eddie

I want my country back!

Gothamist_Cynic

because they are!

jules1000

please don't give this woman, or that "artist" any more publicity.

This stuff has been done many many times before.

I myself have already posed naked in the city about 12 years ago.

Snoopy

In her case nudity works very well. I feel it would not work so well for the two Russian bathing beauties from yesterday's Gotham beach report.

TheKlaus

Her opinions have their basis in her own personal vanity. Yeah, we get it, you're proud that you are a stereotypically hot women who many man would use as mental data for a wank-session. Congrats. Get back to me in a few years when you look like a bag of rats.

Jen S

While "bag of rats" the phrase is hilarious, "bag of rats" the visual is repulsive.

hotstepper

i always adhere to the opinions of actors and models. if they don't have a handle on objective truths then who does? who i ask?

farleft

Most Americans are prudes.

Dirk

So if this woman stripped naked in the National Museum, the Louvre or the Prado, she wouldn't be arrested? Right...

ides_of_march

Europeans are so much more sophisticated, haven't you heard? They're perfect in every way. At least for self-hating, effete, liberal American dingbats.

hotstepper

compile a list of those enviable nations whose majority population is not prudish in your estimation, chose one of those nations, and move there. and thanks for comin' out!

TKaisen

Tell me how to legally obtain an EU passport and I am out of here, you can even smack my ass with the door

I seem to have found a useful link.