Bodypainting Instead of Clothes
Across from a Pret a Manger near Union Square Park, Nicolette Barischoff held still as an artist painted an open blue eye across her sternum on Sunday. It was around 88 degrees and a crowd had assembled around them to observe the Across from a Pret a Manger near Union Square Park, Nicolette Barischoff held still as an artist painted an open blue eye across her sternum on Sunday. It was around 88 degrees and a crowd had assembled around them to observe the bodypainting. But the temperature and the audience did not faze Ms. Barischoff. Nor did the fact that she was naked. “It’s a very Zen experience,” she said, as photographers snapped pictures from behind police barricades. “This is my fishing.” Ms. Barischoff, 38, a writer in Los Angeles, was among the 60 people who had paid $100 to become mostly nude human canvases for 40 artists during NYC Bodypainting Day, a public art exhibition that has been [...]