Iggy Pop Nude Drawings Get Their Own Art Exhibition
This past winter, Iggy Pop posed nude for a drawing class at the New York Academy of Art–organized by the Brooklyn Museum and conceived by British artist Jeremy Deller. The Brooklyn Museum has now announced that those drawings, created by 21 artists, will go on display starting November 4, Dazed Digital reports. The exhibition, called Iggy Pop Life Class, will run until March 26, 2017. The Iggy drawings will be displayed along with other depictions of the male body to examine “shifting cultural representations of masculinity across history.” In addition, Iggy Pop Life Class will be collected in a book, out October 20 via HENI Publishing. See some of the drawings here, and check out the book cover below.
In February, Deller said Iggy Pop’s “body is central to an understanding of rock music and its place within American culture. His body has witnessed much and should be documented.” In a March interview with Entertainment Weekly, Iggy said of the experience: “It wasn’t about my winkie, or anything. It was just a documentation of what’s left of me.” He added, “It’s not the sort of thing I’m going to start doing as a weekend job. I did it once at the start of my career, I was photographed also without clothes by Bill King and Gerard Malanga from the Warhol Factory, so it was time.”
Read our Invisible Hits column “Iggy Pop’s Decade of Destruction” on the Pitch.
JUST ARRIVED! ‘Iggy Pop Life Class’ by @jeremydeller published with @brooklynmuseum. PUBLISHED 20 OCT | PREORDER https://t.co/ajKm4xi99m pic.twitter.com/jvHxM3upBf
— HENI Publishing (@henipublishing) September 23, 2016
Watch Marc Maron tell a story about a shirtless Iggy Pop on Pitchfork.tv’s “Frames”:
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