Yve-Alain Bois’s book Painting as Model was written twenty odd years ago and continues to be an important text, providing conceptual fodder for many contemporary art practices. In the introduction to ...

The British painter, Celia Paul, is an enigma. She is certainly soft spoken and shy, but under that is a fierce power that is at first unexpected, but then, as you get to know her, unsurprising. First ...

The first time Candace Mills pulled on the leopard mask it was supposed to be a joke, but she ended up having to wear it for months. The cumbersome antique was designed to be worn in a circus ...

When we admire great works of art, we rarely think about who the people depicted on the paintings are. Behind some famous paintings are real lives — romantic, dramatic or even exciting. We decided to ...

Recently, fans of “The Baby-Sitters Club” series discovered that the artist behind most of the iconic 1990s book covers, Hodges Soileau, had been selling the original art. Soileau produced oil ...

He put fellow New Jerseyans at the center of his work, and a critic praised the “mysterious emotional tensions” in his ...

At a first glance, you could be forgiven for mistaking these images for intricate works of paper and oil paint. But a closer look reveals that they are actually human bodies transformed by the brush ...