Bill Ralston: Getting to the naked truth

Here’s a novel approach to gallery-going that may be a bit hard to bare.

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2nd June, 2012

At the risk of outraging the Cultural Curmudgeon, who regularly inhabits the pages of this magazine, I have come up with an idea that might boost patronage of the newly renovated Auckland Art Gallery, Te Papa and other galleries and museums that seem under constant financial pressure. Encourage visitors to take their clothes off. Last month, the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art ran a series of after-hours tours where the visitors, the artist leading the group and the gallery staff were naked. All the nude tours were reportedly oversubscribed. Quite why people would want to wander around ...

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