Currently, it finds itself in a labour standoff with the nude life models who are indispensable to artistic instruction, arguing their contracts lack certain protections such as paid leave and insurance.

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The models stated that the nature of the contracts, requiring 500 hours of work over 11 months, doesn’t cover the intensely physical nature of the work, and pledged to take their fight to the court.