Getting Some Nude Body Painting In Times Square

On a sunny Wednesday afternoon in late July, several nudies including myself gathered in Manhattan. https://s3.amazonaws.com/u-naturist/young-family-nudists.html prepared to get nude for among the few times public nudity is allowed in NYC: for a live art exhibition!
We, FKK, had partnered up with Andy Golub for a group body painting session at the outer edges of Times Square, 53rd and Broadway. Ten individuals participated, including a guy who volunteered from the bunch.
First some folks came over claiming the footpath we were on was their property (it wasn't), so Andy had to cope with them. Then we had some plain-clothes police officers come over, crying and demanding that I set my clothes on.


I just kind of stared and continued to get painted. After confirming that they were actually policemen, Andy retrieved some documents he carries with him, for situations just in this way. They calmed down and started reading a letter which explains that nudity is absolutely legal in NYC if it's part of an exhibit or show.
This letter also says that he has express permission from NYPD to do his body painting. They said "okay" and left us alone. This really is not a one-time event for Andy, who gets worried and harassed all the time while doing his live body paintings, despite the fact he has permission and that it's 100% legal.
Body Painting with FKK by Andy Golub, photo by Dave Hoffman
There was a crowd of onlookers at all times, but in this region, it was much tamer than when I got body painted in the middle of Times Square. People honed in a little too closely at times, but it was modest enough to restrain.
We took off our tops to begin, Andy painted, and then we carried on to take off the remainder. It's the first summer that Andy has painting nude people in the day.
He formerly had an arrangement with the city to only paint models in g strings until sundown. With a new lawyer, they managed to eliminate this unfair deal, and now he can paint nude people at any time of day (which was constantly legal).
The coffee shop patrons seemed happy to see us.
The reactions were mostly favorable. Nude (or nearly-nude) folks in the media all fundamentally represent one look, one race, one body type. We want more diversity such as this!
I inquired the models themselves for comments about the entire experience, and here's what they had to say:
"This was the formation of body art [while] discussing with, laughing with, posing with, simply having fun with the crowd. https://s3.amazonaws.com/u-naturist/family-nudists.html have been a performer for a long time, and this was likely the most thrilled and appreciative audience I've ever had. https://s3.amazonaws.com/u-naturist/milfs-on-the-beach.html was indescribably entertaining. I would do it again in a heart-beat." Mr. Sandy
"As you may understand from my site, I'm very comfortable naked and I 've been to numerous events that involved total body painting, but doing it at Times Square brings this experience to another degree. It took some time to get used to maintain the center of attention of heaps of individuals, but the general atmosphere of enjoyment and encouragement caused it to be simple to appreciate it! Clearly, many folks were interested about what was happening, and you could see all kinds of reactions but virtually all were positive.
Many folks were surprised to find out it was absolutely legal. It was funny to hear that even when individuals were baffled in the beginning, they immediately approved the occasion as soon as they heard the magic word 'artwork' - Why are we so attached to labels? Luckily, some folks detected another important factor of this body art occasion the models were of different ages and body complexions, which surely encouraged body acknowledgement; and could there be any better place for that than Times Square? " -Kirill
Yet, not all the reactions were favorable. Not long after the body painting, our good buddy Maria received an anonymous letter. It was an appalling attack on her size and look. It read:
Nobody said you were beautiful or that you seem great because you did not. As a matter fact most individuals who saw your photographs looked away in disgust. You paraded yourself as a nudist/model for the entire world to see; in reality, you were a sideshow act right from a 19th century carnival freak show.