Something remarkable has happened in art galleries over the past decade. Where once only idealized, narrow representations of ...

When Natasha Thompson opened her family-run tattoo studio in Nottingham almost two years ago, her bookings were full of ...

An 18th-century wax model became both a medical teaching tool and a haunting symbol of beauty, science, and control ...

Naked bodies of all shapes and sizes became artists’ canvases at a public art exhibition. Andy Golub, the founder of NYC Bodypainting Day, painted a model at the event’s 10th and final installment on ...

Chazen Museum of Art exhibit “Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection,” examines the human condition through three fundamental lenses — the body in society, the absence ...

The self is an enigma — clouded or fragmented, then illuminated or reconstructed — in “Body Transformed: Contemporary South Asian Photographs and Prints.” This is cleverly expressed by one of the ...

The British artist’s retrospective at the Modern in Fort Worth explores the human body with startling intimacy.

From the chiseled perfection of a Greek god carved from marble to the serene tranquility of a Buddha cast in bronze, the way European and Asian statues depict the human body couldn’t be more different ...

Contemporary South Asian printmakers and photographers depict figures forever in flux in “Body Transformed,” a show at the National Museum of Asian Art. The self is an enigma — clouded or fragmented, ...