Jenny Saville’s mid-career retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features one banger of a painting after another. All hits. “Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting” because Saville (b.

Figurative painting, it seems, is destined to be contemporary art’s perennial sidepiece: always available for a fling, never for very long. The last time one could admit to a passion for it without ...

The Figure Painting project started while going through my mum's attic, sorting through old belongings. On discovering my old toys, I was hit by a wave of nostalgia and a flood of memories from these ...

In a 17th-century painting that hangs in the Yale Divinity School, a group of Reformation thinkers clusters around a table, with Martin Luther occupying pride of place at the center of the scene. But ...

The main element that would change if Renaissance artists had painted their subjects in modern times is that those subjects would be checking their phones in every single painting. A new mashup series ...