“The Naked Portrait” @ Scottish National Portrait Gallery

"Sexy" and "Scotland" aren't usually concepts you expect to find in the same sentence (unless like us you have a fondness for swigging Glenlivet in between sips of XXX Vitamin Water throughout the day, in which case everything starts to look sexy after a while), but beneath that tweedy, damp facade lies a society with the cultural openmindedness to put together a museum show featuring naked bodies from the entire history of photography—and at their National Portrait Gallery, no less. Since "The Naked Portrait" features such art historical heavyweights as Lucien Freud, Richard Avedon, and David Hockney, it's more about Great Art than cheap thrills ... though there's plenty of those to be had if if your idea of cultural enrichment depends on the amount of naked boobage on display. Heck, if there were more shows like this in US museums, we might actually get ourselves out of the house to look at art instead of sitting around looking at naked bodies on our computers all day!

· "The Naked Portrait" (exhibition info @ nationalgalleries.org; see preview gallery here - via sexblo.gs)
Thumbnail: Jane Birkin (1969) by David Bailey

Previously: "Eloquent Nude": Edward Weston and Charis Wilson, World Museum Of Erotic Art, Sweatnapper: Modern Nude Ambrotypes, Touring London's Sex "Theme Park", Old Master Smut By David Nicholson