Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 20—HIGH POINT — What do you get when you cross a roomful of naked, useless mannequins with more than a dozen creative artists ...

In 1823, the fashionable British painter William Etty made a special trip to Paris to buy himself a new piece of equipment for his studio. It wasn’t an easel or brushes he was after, but a life-size ...

Gustave Courbet claimed to paint only “real and existing things,” yet an 1864 photograph of his studio suggests otherwise. In it, a life-sized female effigy sits propped against the wall. Not even ...

The mannequins, which break the typical size 2 model, will be featured in the 2026 "Costume Art" exhibit ...

"This groundbreaking exhibition will reveal the fascinating convergence of design, craftsmanship, art and fashion at the heart of Pucci's mannequins," says Glenn Adamson, MAD's Nanette L. Laitman ...

The upcoming fashion exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art examines “the dressed body” in art over the centuries.

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your donation, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. Burlington sculptor Jake Rifken says his ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mannequins, usually used to display garments, turn into art objects themselves in a new exhibition dedicated to mannequin designer and manufacturer Ralph Pucci. "Ralph Pucci: The ...

In the first half of the 20th century, mannequins were usually little more than human-shaped clothing hangers, meant to display fashion, not to serve as design objects in themselves. But in the 1970s, ...

A recent Wednesday at 5:27 p.m.: Most who walked past the stretch of sidewalk between Jones and Taylor streets on Geary Street that night couldn't help but take a second look as artist Bethany Rose ...