“You get to be nude in public and not get arrested,” she said while standing near a table holding bottles of Gatorade in shades almost as vibrant as the turquoise-colored paint covering the right side of her body. Nije Durdeen, 31, came from Philadelphia to model after learning she might not get another chance. He said he was ending it to focus on other projects for his organization, Human Connection Arts. This year’s installment was the 10th - and the last, according to the event’s founder, Andy Golub, an artist. 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 staged annually since 2014. “It’s a very Zen experience,” she said, as photographers snapped pictures from behind police barricades. ![]() ![]() But the temperature and the audience did not faze Ms. It was around 88 degrees and a crowd had assembled around them. 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.
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