Too brief to get anything down but a scribble, the roughest mass of a body in space. Then came the longer poses. This is when you started to take in the person—the real person, the real body. Like ...

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, ...

PORT TOWNSEND — “Queering the Body,” a figure drawing class series for queer, gender non-conforming and trans folk, will start April 10 at Northwind Art, the nonprofit art school at Fort Worden State ...

South Korean tattooist Sion Kwak uses tattoos to tell stories of identity, beliefs, tradition, culture, and values by creating delicate designs of knots and tassels that are like no other.

Postmodernism, subjectivity, and body art : a trajectory -- The "Pollockian performative" and the revision of the modernist subject -- The body in action : Vito Acconci and the "coherent" male ...

Tattoos. Body paint. Henna. All these are popular kinds of body art with varying histories and cultural connotations, many going back centuries or even longer. They all have something in common, ...