If you’ve seen Iggy Pop play live, you’ve probably seen his pubic hair—it’s a veritable trope of his stage show, kind of like Gallagher and his watermelons. Recently, a small group of art students got to examine it in a new way when Pop posed for a nude life drawing session at the New York Academy Of Art. The session took place on February 21, 2016, and 21 artists participated in the session, which was conceived by artist Jeremy Deller.

The resultant sketches will be on display in an upcoming exhibition called “Iggy Pop Life Class” at the Brooklyn Museum that runs from early November through late March 2017. The sketches will also appear in a book called Iggy Pop Life Class, to be released in the U.S. by HENI Publishing on October 25.

Of the choice of Pop for the project, Deller said, “For me it makes perfect sense for Iggy Pop to be the subject of a life class; 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.”

Indeed. His body has witnessed much.

Below, you can see some of the sketches from the session:
 

Okim Woo Kim, Untitled (Lying pose)
 

Taylor Schultek, Untitled (Seated pose)
 

Guno Park, Untitled (Seated pose)
 

Kallyiah Merilus, Untitled (Standing pose)
 

Levan Songulashvili, Untitled (Standing pose)
 

Mauricio Rodriguez, Untitled (Seated pose)
 

Robert Reid, Untitled (Lying pose)
 
via Stereogum
 

Previously on Dangerous Minds:
Naked: Iggy Pop’s eye-popping performance in see-through pants leaves little to the imagination
Iggy Pop in the late 70s/early 80s, previously unseen photographs taken by his girlfriend