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 ...

Philip Pearlstein, “Two Models with Four Goose Decoys” (1994) Pearlstein made his mark by painting unromanticized views of the human body at a time when such realism was enormously unpopular.

“Everything else is really, really simple compared to the human figure.” Pearson says he has been an artist since age 4, when he first discovered the concept of the human form as art in the ...

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

Scott Ring, left, and Bo Attwood, right, watch models get painted at Human Connection Arts 8th Annual NYC Body Painting Day in Union Square Park on Sunday, July 25, 2021 in New York. Tim Davis gets… ...

Naomi Fry interviews the artist Carroll Dunham about his most recent paintings, how the art world resembles a cult, and what it’s like being the father of Lena Dunham.

In recent years, a fashion for painting the human figure has preoccupied the art world, with an emphasis on race, gender and other urgent social issues.

The cave paintings on Karampuang Hill on the island of Celebes depict a wild pig and three human figures and are at least 52,300 years old, making them over 5,000 years older than any previously ...