When a person dies, his loved ones typically deliver the body to a morgue before it reaches the final destination; Icelandic artist Snorri Ásmundsson is requesting that someone take a detour on that ...

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, ...

Postmodernism, subjectivity, and body art : a trajectory -- The "Pollockian performative" and the revision of the modernist subject -- The body in action : Vito Acconci and the "coherent" male ...

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, ...

South Korean tattooist Sion Kwak uses tattoos to tell stories of identity, beliefs, tradition, culture, and values by ...

Art often challenges us to stretch our imagination, shift perspective and adopt — or, at least, acknowledge — viewpoints outside of our normal frames of reference. That’s why we may seek it and spend ...

It’s hard to pin down the exact origin of the ancient body art of henna. Some speculate that Cleopatra, perhaps the first name that comes to mind when one thinks of the words “consummate beauty,” used ...