A new Jenny Saville exhibition in London charts the celebrated British painter's evolving approach to depicting women's ...

A 27,000-year-old carved face found in France is rewriting what we know about the origins of realistic art in early human ...

From the moment humans began painting, they've been wrestling with the body. The bird-like figure discovered in the caves of Lascaux, France, looks nothing like the broad-backed male drying his face ...

The course builds on my 2018 class, Art and Geometry, which I co-taught with local artists. The course explored Picasso’s ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

In collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, the Monnaie de Paris is staging a sweeping retrospective of French artist Georges ...

After two people added the name of author J.K. Rowling to the piece and another embroidered a line of stitches through both ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

The Danish artist upends traditional representations of the female nude and transforms them into something darker ...

Art, architecture and design news. Criticism and reviews from co-chief art critics Roberta Smith and Holland Cotter and architecture critic Michael Kimmelman.

Jenny Saville’s peers shunned painting in favour of alternative media such as photography, video and installations, the artist stuck to her guns and, unapologetically, worked on canvases as large as ...