Something remarkable has happened in art galleries over the past decade. Where once only idealized, narrow representations of beauty graced museum walls, we now see bodies of all shapes, sizes, ages, ...

Javier Marín’s sculptures have a mesmerizing quality. He focuses on the human body but the power of his work comes from the humanity — his ability to fill the objects he creates with emotion, pain and ...

A new exhibit, “Defining/Defying the Figure: Figurative Art of Baton Rouge,” will be on display from April 22 through May 20 in the LSU Student Union Art Gallery, according to an LSU news release. An ...

Writing on Renaissance painting in terms of cognitive science, far from reducing images to the application of faculties that were as yet unnamed, consists instead in examining how the intuition of ...

Get ready to be creeped out. This week marks the two-year anniversary of the Met Breuer’s opening, and to celebrate, the museum is launching what is perhaps its biggest, most ambitious exhibition ...

A double-entendre title that references the annual start of the school year, “Class Pictures” at the Zuckerman Museum of Art is also about social class and how portraiture can affirm or comment upon ...

Artie, age 12, Astoria, New York We are all born naked, and sculptures of the human body in its natural state are as old as humankind. In the history of art, nudity does not have just one meaning; it ...