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, ...

At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s oldest media. By Zoë Lescaze IT’S A CONFUSING time to have a body. On the ...

In March, an exhibition of works by Jenny Saville, the British artist known for her large-scale figurative paintings, went on display at the Albertina Museum, in Vienna. The day before the opening, ...

Last spring, I read an article published in Vogue titled “Are We Heading for a Beauty Burnout?” In just a few lines, the piece portrayed a culture in crisis. Children are adopting anti-aging routines ...

Last weekend a group of people were blindfolded and led through a path littered with obstacles while a narrator offered mysterious commentary like “If you speak plainly, you are punished” and “If you ...

It may be humanity’s largest art project ever–teaching machines to understand the art of how to be human. "You can't actually teach a machine to understand humans unless you also teach them to ...