The Galleries of Contemporary Art at the Ent Center opened a new exhibit Thursday focused on renewed value of craft in current art. The group exhibition, “Pleasure & Protest in Contemporary Figure ...

The Figure: Painting Drawing and Sculpture, Contemporary Perspectives has the look of a high-end coffee table decoration, but don’t judge this book just by its Martha Mayer Erlebacher cover. Inside, ...

As you walk into the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art’s new exhibit “A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now,” a sense of warmth and intimacy fills the room, unlike the traditional environment of ...

Founded in 2011, OOA Gallery (Out of Africa Gallery) maintains a mission of fostering and promoting contemporary African art, working closely with a diverse roster of artists and developing ...

If you are an artist who works with the human figure, there’s a good chance that your bookshelf includes a dog-eared copy of Andrew Loomis’s classic Figure Drawing for All It’s Worth. Originally ...

Contemporary figurative painting has commanded much critical attention in recent years, but a spate of abstract shows signal a return to non-objectivity. Ragen Moss, Senior Lender (with Mezzanine ...

Americans have always been quick to claim exceptional personalities as their own, despite their origin. Willem de Kooning is one of these exceptional adoptees. While post World War II America nurtured ...

The Art Detective is a weekly column by Katya Kazakina for Artnet News Pro that lifts the curtain on what’s really going on in the art market. As the art market roared back in 2021, one segment has ...

STERLING — Northeastern Junior College art instructor/professor David Wagner is receiving recognition for his artwork. A painting of his was selected to be included in the new book, “The Figure: ...

While many argue that "modern art" began in the 1800s, could it actually have started with Joseph Wright of Derby's An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, nearly a century before? What is "modern ...