Model arrested for stripping in Times Square in the name of art

The New York City police detained a model after she posed in Times Square dressed only in paint

Zoe West, 21, of upstate Kingston, was a human canvas for flesh-obsessed painter Andy Golub, who began touching up his initially topless model.

Later West shed her G-string and also went bottomless, turning the Crossroads of the World into the Naked City, and bringing cops an hour later.

The model said she knew Golub's project, at West 44th Street and Broadway, could land her in the pokey, but she was willing to make the sacrifice for art.

"I don't believe there is truly anything wrong with what I did and with what he was doing," West told the New York Post after she was released.

She said cops dropped all charges, so she's as free as a jaybird.

Cops confirmed that West had been taken into custody, but said records of the incident had been sealed.

Prosecutors couldn't immediately find a record of pending charges against her.

This is the second summer arrest connected to Golub's art. On July 30, he was busted on public-lewdness charges when two of his models stripped down to their birthday suits in Times Square.

Golub admitted he knew the stunt could end with West being detained.

"I explained all this to my model, so she was completely aware," he said.