The exhibit through Sept. 28 includes 97 objects from the 20th century to the present that explore how artists have rendered, ...

A new Jenny Saville exhibition in London charts the celebrated British painter's evolving approach to depicting women's ...

The Danish artist upends traditional representations of the female nude and transforms them into something darker ...

In this period, women in art were predominantly sources of inspiration for male artists, wherein the female figure was used as a basis from which to explore ideas around idealization, composition ...

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist.

The naturalistic female figure was discovered by metal detectorists in the Danish village of Hårby in 2012 and is currently on display at the National Museum of Denmark. The tiny female figurine ...

Alysa Liu becomes the first U.S. woman to win a world figure skating title since 2006, and two other Americans finish in the top five in a promising showing.

Alysa Liu became the first American woman to win the World Figure Skating Championships in 19 years on Friday night in Boston with a free skate in which she landed seven clean triple jumps.

Figure drawing is a fundamental skill for artists, but one of the hardest to truly master. In this article, I explain my personal process for drawing the female form and offer some advice to help ...

You may have heard of the male gaze, but the female gaze is harder to pin down—here’s a full guide to the concept.

A statue with the head of a seagull and the body of a human woman is raising controversy for a second time in a Massachusetts town.