Striptease photos on Flickr

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Hakone_2019 05 16_2853 by Harvey Barrison

Grand Striptease (1967), a Bronze sculpture by Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù (1908-1991) / Hakone Open-Air Museum (箱根彫刻の森美術館, Hakone Choukoku no Mori Bijutsukan) is Japan's first outdoor museum, opened in 1969 in Hakone, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It has collections of art by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) [the museum dedicates an entire pavilion to three hundred of his works, from sculptures and paintings, as well as drawings, pottery, and portraits of the Spanish artist immortalized by the American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan; the Picasso pavilion dates from 1984 when his sister, Maya Picasso, inherited some of the master's works], Taro Okamoto, Yasuo Mizui, Churyo Sato, Constantin Brâncuși, Barbara Hepworth, Rokuzan Ogiwara, Kōtarō Takamura (1883-1956), Henry Moore, (1898-1986) [who loved to say that sculpture "is an open-air art"] has twenty-six works presented here - which means the museum holds one of the largest collections of his sculptures, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Aristide Maillol (1861-1944), Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002) and her imposing Miss Black Power, Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), among others. In total, the museum features over a thousand sculptures and other works of art with about 120 on permanent display across the huge sculpture park, works spanning the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The museum is split into 5 indoor exhibitions and also offers sculptures on which children can play. Art frequently addresses the question: is art a representation of nature, or an imitation? Art and nature, art against nature, art through nature or natural art... there is nothing more "natural" than to close the loop with this museum, which makes a convincing show of demonstrating that art can be in nature, as well as nature can be in art. Not to be missed is the Symphonique sculpture by Gabriel Loire (1904-1996), a multicolored tower inside which colors and lights seize and fill the space, the effect is a combination of stained glass and mosaic, in chromatic shades, and Sphere within the sphere, by the Italian artist Arnaldo Pomodoro, born in 1926, of which other versions are exhibited in the United States, Lebanon, Israel and the Vatican, is also a must-see.

People: Strip-tease dancer Faith Bacon caught in the act by Boston Public Library

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File name: 08_06_024462

Title: People: Strip-tease dancer Faith Bacon caught in the act

Creator/Contributor: Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967 (photographer)

Date created: 1939-04

Physical description: 1 negative : film, black & white ; 3 1/8 x 4 1/4 in.

Genre: Film negatives; Glamour photographs

Subject: Stripteasers

Notes: Title and date from information provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve.

Collection: Leslie Jones Collection

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department