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 ...

Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art, which was probably the chief critical influence in developing the great outpouring of American abstractionism of the last 15 years, this week puts on a significant ...

To celebrate its 20th anniversary next year, Nashville’s Frist Art Museum will host a landmark survey on Pablo Picasso that focuses on the late iconic artist’s fascination with the human figure across ...

“Boundless” is designed to transport us to a more ethereal space, where floating bodies dance in the starry night sky. The creation of Devika Sundar, the artwork is an ode to the vast and mysterious ...

Archaeologists have discovered a new style of ancient Australian rock art that features unusual depictions of human and animal figures, seemingly living in harmony. The works from this ancient art ...

A few minutes before today's advanced figure drawing class begins, students slowly file into a classroom at Ringling College of Art and Design. Like chefs preparing their stations, the students go ...

“From Life,” a new exhibition by sculptor JeanCherie, showcases decades worth of live figure work, paying homage to the artistic staple. The show features 13 artists local to Vallejo and the Bay Area, ...

Is there a source of inspiration more endlessly fascinating, yet also fraught, than the human body? Art has turned to corporeal forms for as long as it has existed, depicting the pain and the beauty ...

In 1895, when the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered mysterious rays that could pass through muscles, tendons and skin, he trained these invisible beams of light onto his wife’s fingers and ...