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 ...

The Department of Art + Art History has many recent successes to celebrate. Alumna Mirena Suarez and graduate student Julie Orsini Shakher, both in the art education program, recently won the ...

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 ...

Archaeologists have discovered what they claim to be the oldest example of figurative art made by human hands. An ochre painting of pigs, found on a cave wall in Indonesia, has been dated to be at ...

In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

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 ...

A pig painted on the wall of an Indonesian cave is the world’s oldest figurative art—that is, it’s the oldest known drawing of something, rather than an abstract design or a stencil. The ...

Next year will see Europe’s leading art spaces continue to celebrate new figurative art. Here's who you need to know about. Buffeted by the arrival of abstract art in the 20th century and threatened ...

"Whether it is the highly collectable and cutting-edge work of Chantal Joffe or Ishbel Myerscough making its way into your Instagram feed, or your weekend plans to visit the recent Modigliani ...