Skip to main content Home ARTnews Reviews Bodies, Bodies, Bodies: Artists Revisit the Nude in Shows Across New York Seung Ah Paik, Self Configuration: Manganese Violet 2 , 2026. Courtesy the artist and Bortolami, New York This spring in New York, it’s bodies, bodies, bodies, with artists across the city reveling in the pleasures of the flesh and the horror of harm done upon it. These are themes that are core to at least one major museum show on view in the city—the New Museum’s exquisite “New Humans: Memories of the Futur e ” —and that may be one reason we’re seeing so much body-oriented art right now. But more than simply meditating on all matters corporeal, a smattering of shows have zeroed in on something more specific: the nude and all the baggage that attends this artistic genre. One would be hard-pressed to find a genre that is more prevalent in the Western canon —and one that is more fraught.…