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Nude Drawings of Iggy Pop Coming to Brooklyn Museum This Fall

 Iggy Pop performs on stage with his band Iggy and the Stooges in Byron Bay, Australia.
Iggy Pop performs on stage with his band Iggy and the Stooges in Byron Bay, Australia.
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He doesn't wanna be your dog anymore... but he'll be your nude model.

Iggy Pop, arguably America’s most frequently shirtless rock star, is taking it all off in a new exhibit coming to the Brooklyn Museum this fall featuring nothing but nude drawings of the 68-year-old musician.

The show, “Iggy Pop Life Class,” will display work created by 21 artists of the naked rocker, who posed for the group in a life drawing session at the New York Academy of Art earlier this month, the museum said.

The curator of the exhibit, artist Jeremy Deller, said it makes “perfect sense” for Iggy — credited for inventing the stage-dive and famous for wild performances — to be the subject of the nude-focused exhibit because “his body is central to an understanding of rock music and its place within American culture.”

“His body has witnessed much and should be documented,” he said in a statement.

(Photo credit: Elena Olivo/Brooklyn Museum)

A photo from the nude drawing class shows Iggy sprawled face-up on a table, his characteristic blonde hair fanned out around his head, surrounded by straight-faced artists diligently working at their easels.

The 21 artists selected to participate in the “Life Class” were recommended from Pratt Institute, Kingsborough Community College, the Art Students League of New York, the New York Academy of Art and the Brooklyn Museum’s Gallery/Studio Program. Organizers said the artists ranged in age from 19 to 80 years old and included retirees and students as well as professional artists.

The work collected by the group will go on view sometime in the fall of 2016 at the museum, to be following by a tour, dates to be determined.

2016 is shaping up to be a big year for Iggy Pop. His new album, Post Pop Depression is out on March 8. It's a collaboration with Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme. The duo is playing the United Palace Theatre on April 12. The cheapest tickets run about $128. 

Here's a recent clip of their performance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert":