Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we ...

In Italian painting, on the other hand, such depictions are rare, despite the diffusion of the Meditaciones in the Italic peninsula (1,2,3). A similar three-dimensional imagination of the human figure ...

With a series of body-painting workshops this month, Setiawan, 33, says he’s showcasing more than the human form — he’s giving a boost to people’s body image.

Primitivism in painting (and its close relative fauvism) was poorly received when it first appeared in the work of artists like Paul Gauguin, but it left a lasting mark on art.

Artists have depicted the human form since the days of the early cave painters. They’ve gotten a lot more sophisticated in the millennia that followed. “Embodied” offers proof at The Ringling.

Xebgħa Nies 2 – The Human Clay is the second collective exhibition for a group of established artists who share a predisposition to draw, sculpt and paint the human figure. It is curated by ...

The black-figure technique of vase painting was invented in the city of Corinth around 700 B.C.E. It was around this time that Corinthian vase painters began adorning their vessels with animal friezes ...

Art The artists revealing the multiplicity of the human body. Contemporary South Asian printmakers and photographers depict figures forever in flux in “Body Transformed,” a show at the ...

FOR THE RECORD A column, "At the Galleries," in the Sept. 22 issue of the Coastline Pilot incorrectly identified artist Robert Story’s relation to Katharine Story.