Barbara Millicent Roberts—better known as Barbie—is one of the most recognizable faces and toys in the world. Created by businesswoman Ruth Handler and launched by Mattel in 1959, Barbie quickly ...

Liz Conces Spencer remembers the quiet, contemplative demeanor that Joel Middaugh brought to modeling for artists. He had an unspoken, visual rapport with them. “[He] just had a way of … taking a pose ...

Forget the Oscars: the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute Gala is hands down the most glamorous party of the year. Think Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, ...

Who, indeed? Putting aside the absurdity of Claretie’s question—Olympia was a common nom de guerre in brothels—the answer is Victorine Meurent, the model, musician and artist wrongly framed by many ...

Though models are frequently called upon to serve as muses for designers, their influence extends far beyond fashion. Over the years, countless artists have looked to runway models when seeking ...

Here’s how Amanda Seyfried’s art world wish — to be transformed by Los Angeles artist Mark Ryden into a caricature-on-canvas “with blood trickling down my throat and me holding a dead cat” — came true ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – One of the oldest tropes in art is that of the “artist” and “muse.” One is the creative soul and ideas person; the other, a fixed or inert “inspirational” subject to be posed and ...