American artist Godofredo Astudillo energizes the venue of the MCASB satellite gallery at Riviera Beach House, verging on the ...

Left: Janice Nowinski, “Pink Bathing Suit III” (2016), 0il on canvas, 14 x 11 in; right: Janice Nowinski, “Man drinking in the woods” (2016), oil on canvas, 14 x 11 in (all images courtesy Kent Fine ...

As galleries around the world begin to slowly reopen, we are spotlighting individual shows—online and IRL—that are worth of your attention. What the gallery says: “Arsenal Contemporary Art New York is ...

Making sense of an overarching theme like “figuration” would seem a daunting task. Doesn’t the word apply to any artwork that represents anything in the external world? But thanks to Nicelle Beauchene ...

Philip Pearlstein is an American painter widely regarded as one the greatest figurative artists of the last century. Pearlstein’s work is often composed of multiple nude models in complex interiors, ...

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 ...

It's easy to think of ancient humans as occupied solely with survival. When our ancestors invented tools, they served a purely practical purpose — to help us adapt to a changing environment due to ...

The oldest figurative painting in the world has been discovered in the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi by scientists from Australia and Indonesia The cave paintings on Karampuang Hill on the ...

With dealers and curators jumping on the figurative bandwagon, we have to look more closely at whether a new cohort of painters succeeds at what they’re attempting. Doron Langberg’s Daniel Reading, ...

Paul Resika is an American artist born in 1928 in New York City, United States. He studied at the Parsons School of Design in New York and was influenced by Hans Hofmann. Resika has been associated ...