The painting Islamic Scientists was one of the last that Syrian artist Mahmoud Hammad produced before his death in 1988. It is also perhaps his most ambitious. The work tackles a vast timeline, ...

When Grace Humphreys Rockafellow, 86,  was invited to participate in a reading of African American Literature, Renee Andrews, ...

"It's been so sad to watch him go from my sweet little brother to a hateful guy who is stuck in his room all the time." ...

The bold installation of a 45-foot-tall mesh sculpture of a naked woman standing in the center of San Francisco’s Union Square has been canceled, organizers confirmed to the Chronicle on Thursday, ...

A still from one of the projections in Verdigris Ensemble's production of "Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of ...

A plan to temporarily install a nearly 50-foot tall statue of a nude woman in Union Square has been canceled due to concerns that the weight of the enormous artwork and its base could crack granite ...

At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s ...

In her heyday, Lina Cavalieri was heralded as the most beautiful woman in the world — a superstar of the Belle Epoque whose legacy is kept alive by a Milan-based, family-run design firm that fell in ...

Artist Citra Sasmita imagines a world populated entirely by women in her momentous painted scrolls, part of a new exhibition ...

This powerful exhibition makes space for Hélène de Beauvoir to exist in the cultural consciousness apart from her more famous ...

Often called "female Viagra," Addyi (flibanserin) and Vyleesi (bremelanotide) are medications designed to boost sexual desire in females though they do not affect physical performance. They treat a ...

I want to create an environment where women and queer artists feel safe, valued and free to express their many roles without fear or apology. Speaking with The Art Newspaper, Le Quang Sang says st ...