To be Black in America, artist John Woodrow Wilson (1922–2015) once said, was to endure "a kind of slow death." How best to ...

In Indonesia, a prehistoric painting of a narrative scene has been found to date back at least 51,200 years ago. It is the oldest known example of “figurative” cave art in the world.

Courtesy of the artist, David Zwirner and Ramiken. Photo: Dario Lasagni FOR MUCH OF art history, figurative sculpture was steeped in a sense of the eternal. Ancient statues of leaders, heroes and ...

Philip Pearlstein is an American painter widely regarded as one the greatest figurative artists of the last century ... He was born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA and studied at the Carnegie ...

Cape Town's art scene is about to experience something truly unique with the arrival of the highly anticipated exhibition ‘How Far is Africa?’.