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Feb. 21 2010 - 6:42 pm | 2,241 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments

Spencer Tunick Invites Lady Gaga to Dispel Lady Parts Rumors

Spencer Tunick, who is known for his expansive landscape photographs of nude bodies laying this way and that in public, has sent an official invitation to Lady Gaga to pose for him in his next installation at the Sydney Opera House on March 1. The theme of the installation photograph is the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival and Tunick will ask his participants to shed their clothing and sprawl across the steps of the famous opera house. Tunick would like Lady Gaga to be in the crowd in her birthday suit just like every one else. Whether she makes herself known in the crowd is up to her, says Tunick.

I was thinking she could slip in there anonymously and no one would know she was there. I’d be glad to not tell a soul.

Or maybe she would want to pose, maybe she would want people to know she was there but just couldn’t be found in the crowd. You know, then it could be like ‘where’s Lady Gaga?’”

If she accepts, this would be one of the more interesting ways for Lady Gaga to keep her artistic approach while simultaneously dispelling the rumors that she is not all woman. Though Tunick’s photographs are often a packed assembly of naked bodies, it should be easy enough to spot a hermaphrodite in the crowd (Unless, of course, there are other hermaphrodites in the crowd as well.). I see no reason why Lady Gaga should not take Tunick up on his offer. She’d be giving fans what they have wanted for so long, to see her sans clothing; she’d put to rest the ridiculous rumors concerning her anatomy; and she’d be paying homage to the gay and lesbian community, one of her largest demographics of fans. Plus, it seems she’s already halfway there since she posed topless on the cover of Q Magazine this month.

via Spencer Tunick invites Lady GaGa to pose naked in Sydney | Herald Sun.


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