The Nude First Lady (Of France)

Hamilton Nolan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:10:07 EDT

Carla Bruni, who recently married noted ladies' man Nikolas Sarkozy and became the First Lady of France, used to be a model. A naked model. A nude—and relatively tasteful—portrait of Bruni by the photographer Michel Comte is up for sale at Christie's in April. The press duly reported on the upcoming sale, but there's been an admirable sense of maturity about it across the board. By contrast, imagine the prospect of a nude Hillary Clinton portrait surfacing. Or not. The Bruni photo is expected to sell for about $4,000, but you can see it for free, after the jump. NSFW, although it is art.

[photo via Christie's]

Columbia Profs Are Down And Dirty And Catty

Maggie — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:35:36 EDT

Columbia University might want to rethink that hasty decision to take a pass on summer team-building retreats for staffers. Maybe some ropes course training or a little "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board," would have upped the love between two different pairs of its fine educators, who have been bitch-slapping each other around for years. Charges of bad-mouthing; jockeying for position; insinuations of intra-office noose-hanging (and whatever happened to those security tapes, by the way?); rumor-spreading; sabotage, "Machiavellian ouster" schemes—God, we so love "Gossip Girl," it's totally, like, the best show on television. What will go down tonight, when the outgoing president of Barnard hosts a public dinner to talk about recent incidents? Staff food fight?

Gawker: Maturity

The Nude First Lady (Of France)

Columbia Profs Are Down And Dirty And Catty