Artist Claire Lemmel had wanted to express her feelings about Sept. 11 on canvas. One night when her daughter lost a tooth, the project's concept came to her with a drop of blood. The former West End ...

The blood painters — as introduced in part one — have become entranced by this medium for differing reasons. The first time some artists even painted with blood, it was an unplanned experience. "This ...

Artist Charanjit Singh with one of his paintings at his house in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. (Photo: Courtesy of Cover Asia Press) Indian artist Charanjit Singh grew tired of other artists ripping him ...

Russian artist Andrei Molodkin is asking for people to donate their blood for his latest piece of art. So why does Molodkin need so much blood, you ask? Well, according to Hypebeast, Molodokin’s ...

Art collecting has always required collectors to grapple with the boundaries of what counts as legitimate artistic practice. This post explores one of the more provocative corners of contemporary art: ...

"This book appeared on the occasion of the exhibition entitled "Blood: perspectives on art, power, politics and pathology," held at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst and the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt ...

Back in the 1980s and ’90s, artists like Andres Serrano and Ron Athey helped ignite the culture wars with artworks that combined blood and other bodily fluids with melodramatic images of religion and ...

When Donald Trump said of journalist Megyn Kelly, “you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her wherever”, the American artist Sarah Levy responded by painting a ...

Elito Circa wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He grew up in a poor community in the Philippines. Art supplies were a luxury he couldn't afford. But Elito had a passion for creating. He ...

Art school grad Carina Úbeda Chacana unveiled her exhibition, Cloths, at the Center of Culture and Health in Quillota, Chile late last week and it was composed of a display of five years of her own ...

Ever since the early Cubists first caught the fever in 1910, African Negro sculpture has had an important influence on modern artists. In recent months first-rate exhibitions of this art have been ...