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And it just gets better from there...

"Hughes remained in the fetal position on the floor as two people dressed as ninjas blindfolded two stuffed animals and impaled one of them with a sword...The students at first encouraged Hughes to dance to the music that was playing as he stripped, but then were dismayed when footage of the Twin Towers collapsing and wartime Nazi Germany began rolling..."

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The students were understandably confused, even when Hughes attempted to explain his performance. "In order to learn quantum mechanics, you have to strip to your raw, erase all the garbage from your brain, and start over again,” he said. “Um, nothing you’ve learned in your life up til now is in any way going to help prepare you for this. . . . I’ve been tasked with the impossible challenge of teaching you quantum mechanics in one hour.”

As Professor Hughes has not responded to various press requests, we can only assume that his mission was not successful.

Back in February, artist Brian Reed posed a nude model in the storefront window of West Village gallery The Chair and Maiden. She wore nothing but a chintzy-looking sculpture around her head and shoulders--asking $30,000 no less, model not included. It was an artistic gesture that worried neighbors, including a local children's boutique.

The police were called in to shut down the show, but because the female model, who was later joined by a male counterpart, was not behaving lewdly, no laws were broken.

The show and its tastelessly tasteful art is now long gone--and so are the gallerists.

The Chair and Maiden's landlord, Jon Posner, has decided not to renew the gallery's lease. "All I got out of this was grief, annoyance and accusations . . . that I was turning a blind eye," he told the Post.

Everybody's a critic.

Uncharacteristically for a Gawker Media property, the site had the decency (or prudery...or legal discomfort) to remove any "identifying features."

You may remember that Gawker Media was recently embroiled in a controversy over their publication of crime scene photos.

But the TSA story is a pretty big tease. The images are just a bunch of blurry pixels in the shape of a human—without a hint of nudity.

Fortunately, there is a more powerful scanner that produces images much more, um, newsworthy. Have a look!

Encircled by about 100 artists with sketch pads and drawing utensils in hand, they’d been holding the pose for almost 10 minutes, and Ms. Darling was starting to get tired. To keep herself alert, she sang a familiar tune over and over in her head: the Oscar Mayer Wiener theme song.

“It sounds ridiculous, but it keeps me occupied,” Ms. Darling told The Observer later that evening. “You have to come up with something that’s gonna keep you busy.”

Ms. Darling was one of a handful of young women who posed for as long as 25 minutes at a time over the course of Adult Drawing, an ongoing XXX-rated affair with wine and DJ’s that attracts artists and voyeurs alike, and where all eyes tend to remain fixed on a variety of racy nude scenes that unfold in the center of the room.

A few similar events have gained popularity in New York over the past several years, like the burlesque-oriented Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, and Michael Alan’s Draw-a-thon, which leans toward experimental theater. But Adult Drawing stands out in its emphasis on good old-fashioned smut.

“I felt like this clinical nude-modeling thing could use a jolt of energy,” said Alex Zoppa, 26, who created Adult Drawing a little over a year ago. “Models from a porn background are more open, so in a lot of ways, it gives some excitement to the art world, which can be a bit stodgy at times.”

Most of Adult Drawing’s models are from the Brooklyn-based porn Web site BurningAngel.com—which prefers everyday girls with tattoos to blond beauties with fake breasts—and their poses are more likely to evoke the clichés of a dirty movie than a life-drawing class.

Friday’s audience, in which a young artista might have been seated next to people old enough to be her grandparents, seemed inspired by Ms. Darling and her friends.

“They’re fabulous subjects,” said Lisa Law, 26, who was putting the finishing touches on a charcoal-drawn bosom.

Ms. Law said she particularly enjoyed the aspect of two models interacting with each other in different positions, like in the dominatrix scene. But as she watched the pair readjust themselves for another grueling 10-minute pose, this time with Dusty’s hands bound behind her back, it was unlikely she could have guessed what was going through Ms. Darling’s mind at the time:

“Oh, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener!”