NSFW at OUTLET, Brooklyn

Turning the tables, the new exhibition will show male nudes painted by women artists

Portraits of naked women litter gallery and art fair walls; but spotting the contemporary male nude, in contrast, seems to be as rare as sighting the yeti. The male gaze is still alive and kicking—evident across every visual medium, from film to advertisements, where women subjects are little more than objects shaped by desires and idealization not their own. We’ve seen conversation-starting work come from …