It’s next to impossible to walk through “Costume Art,” the Met’s blockbuster fashion exhibition, as an impassive observer.
Ahead of The Met Gala, the Costume Institute's chief curator in charge Andrew Bolton offers a tour in the new Condé M. Nast ...
Colossal heads, with luminous faces – intense and inscrutable – line the walls of Jenny Saville's studio in Oxford, England. She described the portrait's inner glow: "I'll just rub the paint in and ...
Joan Semmel has created a distinctive body of work largely centered on painted images of her own body. For her new exhibition at Alexander Gray Associates, Semmel has created 12 large paintings, many ...
To understand fashion, we must move beyond the static object and consider its life in the world; its intimacy with the body, ...
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, ...
The curious gaze of artist Jenny Saville upon the female body, including her own, has made her one of the most celebrated of modern British portrait painters. She talks with correspondent Elizabeth ...