The workers who pose for artists at historic organizations like the Art Students League say they are overworked and underpaid ...

The thought of stepping in front of a roomful of artists as a figure drawing model for the first time was nerve-wracking for Michelle Long. She recalls nervously rehearsing for her modeling debut in ...

Kent Van Dusseldorp creates dynamic poses for artists during Zoom sessions on his computer. Through the coronavirus shutdown, he's discovered that can now pose for anyone around the world. Nude ...

Over the years I’ve scrutinized, squinted at and visually dissected every inch of easily more than 100 naked humans. That’s because my passion is figure drawing, so I rack up a lot of hours staring at ...

At the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, an audacious installation by Christina A. West called “Strut” left some early visitors feeling uneasy — which was the point. “She’s really pushing the ...

Naomi Watts, Christina Di Donna and former Victoria’s Secret model Kristy Hinze-Clark hosted a benefit for the New York Academy of Art, where guests showed off their own artistic skills. Taking to ...

From catalog to couture, the right male model poses can mean the difference between selling a fantasy or missing the mark. But not everyone has Blue Steel as a fallback, so if you’re an aspiring Tyson ...

From learning to smize to perfecting your angles, you’re going to run into a lot of advice on your road to becoming a model. Posing perfectly for a photo shoot can still be a difficult endeavor, no ...

Tens of thousands of years ago an aspiring artist picked up a piece of charcoal and drew an image of another early human being on the rocky wall of a cave. Across the millennia that followed people ...

The first time Elliott Vargas posed nude for artists, it wasn't at the Detroit Queer Sketch Series. The 27-year-old had already tried their hand at modeling at Detroit's venerable Scarab Club, coaxed ...