{"id":4386,"date":"2013-05-18T13:38:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T20:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2013-05-21T13:49:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T20:49:01","slug":"lady-godiva-was-a-freedom-rider-she-didnt-care-if-the-whole-world-looked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/18\/lady-godiva-was-a-freedom-rider-she-didnt-care-if-the-whole-world-looked\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Godiva was a freedom rider \/ She didnt&#8217; care if the whole world looked."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/bea-arthur-naked-portrait-sells-2-million-facebook-stir-article-1.1345923\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The New York Daily News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 itemprop=\"headline\">Bea Arthur topless portrait sells for nearly $2 million, causes Facebook stir<\/h1>\n<p><em>The \u2018Golden Girls\u2019 star gives new meaning to the show\u2019s name as the artist-imagined subject of the painting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>BY\u00a0<a itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/authors?author=Chiderah%20Monde\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author\">CHIDERAH MONDE<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4387\" alt=\"BeaArthurNaked\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/BeaArthurNaked.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/BeaArthurNaked.jpg 480w, https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/BeaArthurNaked-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A 1991 painting depicting actress\u00a0<a title=\"Bea Arthur\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Bea+Arthur\" target=\"_blank\">Bea Arthur<\/a>\u00a0baring her \u2014 um, golden girls \u2014 sold for nearly $2 million at an auction in Manhattan Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The John Currin creation, aptly named &#8220;Bea Arthur Naked,&#8221; captures the beloved sitcom actress nude from the waist up.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.christies.com\/lotfinder\/paintings\/john-currin-bea-arthur-naked-5684049-details.aspx?from=searchresults&amp;pos=14&amp;intObjectID=5684049&amp;sid=fd55d5a0-ee00-4b07-82d7-f75ba8bbec06\" target=\"_blank\">According to auction house<\/a>\u00a0Christie&#8217;s, the provocative work was imagined from a photograph of the actress with clothes on.<\/p>\n<p>Notes on the auction house website describe the portrait as both &#8220;nostalgic and repelling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/bea-arthur-naked-portrait-sells-2-million-facebook-stir-article-1.1345923\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYDailyNews.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Daily News Bea Arthur topless portrait sells for nearly $2 million, causes Facebook stir The \u2018Golden Girls\u2019 star gives new meaning to the show\u2019s name as the artist-imagined subject of the painting. BY\u00a0CHIDERAH MONDE A 1991 painting depicting actress\u00a0Bea Arthur\u00a0baring her \u2014 um, golden girls \u2014 sold for nearly $2 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}