For the ­­­­second event, I chose to describe the The Male Nude exhibition that Alice Neel and John Perreault worked on together. As both were notable figures in the art world, they knew of each other before they met, having respect for the other’s work and values. While this wasn’t their first meeting, (Perreault was assigned to do a review of Neel’s work for ARTnews where he worked with her for the first time, roughly 1968), this was important for Perreault as it was his first exhibition as a curation at the School of Visual Arts. Perreault was making a point to be subversive and challenging to the norms of the art world, especially in what was considered tasteful and acceptable. He recalled in an article that he wanted to show Neel’s Joe Gould, specifically because no one else had ever shown it before as it was considered too controversial. To add to the controversial nature of this exhibition, it was also considered a bit presumptuous for the curator of an exhibition to show a painting that he posed for while in the midst of curating. The Male Nude as a 1972 exhibition emphasized the male body in the realm of nude art, which is predominately made up of female bodies. It is especially fitting that it came after the Sexual Revolution and Gay Liberation Movements of the 1960s and 70s, allowing for the male nude to be sexually appealing to both women and men when previously women were told to ignore their feelings of sexual desire and homosexual feelings frowned upon.