Something remarkable has happened in art galleries over the past decade. Where once only idealized, narrow representations of beauty graced museum walls, we now see bodies of all shapes, sizes, ages, ...

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, “Musings on a Glass Box,” view of screen in right gallery (all photos courtesy Luc Boegly) Visually, “Musings on a Glass box” looks kind of dumb in its bland emptiness, but ...

LOS ANGELES — Art wallops us emotionally because it transforms abstract, internal emotion into a real, external thing. Ideas and thoughts become elements we can see, hear, or feel in our hands. It’s ...

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, ...