ArtScience Museum's latest exhibition is an in-depth exploration of the human body and how it has been studied and imagined for years.

The 20th-century art historian Kenneth Clark made a distinction between the “naked,” meaning unclothed and ashamed, and the ...

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, ...

Tattoos. Body paint. Henna. All these are popular kinds of body art with varying histories and cultural connotations, many going back centuries or even longer. They all have something in common, ...

When Anna Dhody was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her mother used the city’s museums as a kind of babysitter. “She would just drop me off at the Penn Museum and be, like, ...

Reviewers on TripAdvisor call it “cool” and “disturbing.” Dinglefielder remarks it as “fascinating nightmare.” Journalist Michael Turtle writes, “But even with the warm rays streaming in through the ...