Bandai recently released the Legacy Gold Ranger figure as part of their collectors line, but as most know the prototype differed substantially from the final product. Instead of golden armor, the ...

The Figure Painting project started while going through my mum's attic, sorting through old belongings. On discovering my old toys, I was hit by a wave of nostalgia and a flood of memories from these ...

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Traveling from as far away as China, realist painters vie with one another in a weeklong contest. In a contemporary art world awash in -isms, realistic figure painting may seem like a quaint throwback ...

The Whitechapel Gallery's new show Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium presents a new generation of artists who chose to paint and to make figurative work. Surely, this makes them doubly ...

Michael Armitage, “Kampala Suburb” (2014), oil on Lubugo bark cloth, 196 x 150 cm (Private Collection, London) LONDON — About 30 or so years ago, painting’s grand State Funeral at Westminster Abbey in ...