Nudity

The ordeal of sitting for my father Lucian Freud

8 June 2024 9:00 am

Rose Boyt describes posing naked over many nights – supplied with purple hearts by Freud to keep her awake – and her shock on finally seeing the result

Liberté, égalité, nudité

13 August 2022 9:00 am

France’s new sexual politics

Strip club

26 February 2022 9:00 am

Why men of a certain age love to get naked

Meat and two veg

23 October 2021 9:00 am

My evening at a naked dining club

Butt of the joke

10 July 2021 9:00 am

Streaking is a great British tradition

Viva la vulva!

15 August 2020 9:00 am

I spent half an hour this week listening to a woman make a plaster cast of her vulva. Kat Harbourne,…

In your face

21 February 2015 9:00 am

Who are these chaps who insist on standing so close?

A dressing room in London designed by Nicky Haslam, inspired by Dorothy Draper’s lobby at the Carlyle Hotel in New York

The art of design

22 November 2014 9:00 am

Phaidon pioneered the modern art-book in 1936. The formula was: large format, fine production, exceptional plates, and essays by the…

Selfie obsession

4 October 2014 9:00 am

People can’t seem to stop taking pictures of themselves – and their private parts. It’s the ultimate expression of our increasingly puerile and narcissistic society

Dear Mary

21 September 2013 9:00 am

Q. Some years ago, on holiday in Egypt, we found ourselves in the company of a couple who wanted to…