“I know it when I see it” is how US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously described pornography in a 1964 obscenity case. But the Los Angeles-based photographer Rowan Metzner wants to go ...

When questioned about the relationship between art and sexuality, Pablo Picasso once replied, “It’s the same thing.” Gèrard Règnier, director of the Picasso Museum in Paris and curator of the “Picasso ...

As New York Times art critic Roberta Smith has written, we live in the age of the art revival — a time when all sorts of artists are being recovered from their forgotten corners and brought into the ...

Twenty-nine years ago, a group of anonymous feminist artists known as the Guerrilla Girls unveiled a poster that read, “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum? Less than 5% of the ...

“I’ve always loved drawing the human body. I especially liked painting women’s faces and bodies, particularly with a mysterious mood” Joyce Lee says of her first steps into painting and portraiture as ...

Instagram, with its nipple-hating overlords and strict “community guidelines,” has become an unlikely hub for erotic art. Of course, we all know that Instagram is an all-too-perfect tool for ...

Throughout Evelyne Axell’s short but radical career, the Belgian artist revered the female body in psychedelic hues rendered in gleaming enamel. Nude women recline in acid green or cerulean blue ...

The show of erotic nudes, collected by a mentally ill poet, is part of a worldwide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the deaths of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. Pablo Picasso, Head of a Woman ...

Here is the definition of erotic, according to 93-year-old artist Martha Edelheit. “It’s sensual, nonviolent, consensual, warm, inviting, sometimes funny, witty ...