The representation of genitalia in the fine arts was censored for centuries: sexual organs were discreetly hidden among fig leaves, pearls or sheets; and it is still a taboo today. From Antiquity to the present day, the history of puritanism applied to art and the tricks used by artists to circumvent censorship.

A portrait of the artist as a "sublime demon with the archangel's face", with an innovative musique ...

Artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss create the ultimate Rube Goldberg machine. The pair used found...

Documentary about red-bereted Jimmy Mirikitani, a feisty painter working and living on the street, n...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

Seeing is to painting what listening is to politics. Survival as an artist demands both. Paint Until...

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...

In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish Na...

In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure...

An account of the life and work of the multidisciplinary Spanish artist Mariano Fortuny Madrazo (187...

56-year-old artist Mindy Alper has suffered severe depression and anxiety for most of her life. For ...

Every fall, The Center for Cartoon Studies invites 20 aspiring cartoonists to White River Junction, ...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...