For several years, Canadian sculptor Evan Penny has considered the Greek myth of Marsyas, the satyr who challenged Apollo to a musical contest and lost. His punishment was to be flayed alive by the ...

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's musical response to Marsyas, LamenTate: Homage to Anish Kapoor and his sculpture Marsyas for piano and orchestra (2002), is unveiled at Tate Modern in a world premiere.

Why Marsyas? What does it mean to you? Marsyas is a figure from Greek mythology, a satyr flayed by the god Apollo for daring to play a piece of music, on the flute, better than Apollo himself. There's ...

Some artworks are left incomplete by accident; others by design. They can be thrilling, insightful – and even more exciting than a finished work, writes Alastair Sooke. It is one of the grisliest ...

It emerged last week that Middlesbrough is vying with two of the world's most famous cities to become permanent home to an acclaimed sculpture. Some scoffed, claiming the town's fight with New York ...

Skinned alive, humiliated and left to rot. The corpse-like figures in hugely influential South African artist Marlene Dumas’s newest series of paintings have suffered, and their pain is almost ...