The Collector's Guide

The male figure has never been more alive as a subject in contemporary art. Here are 7 artists who are pushing that conversation forward in ways worth paying attention to.

One of the most common questions I get from collectors is whether to buy an original watercolor or a print. The honest answer is that both are worth collecting. Here's how to know which one is right for you.

Something is shifting in how collectors think about the male figure in art. It's not just about history anymore. Here's what's drawing people to contemporary male figure art right now.

The 19th century produced some of the most technically accomplished male nude art in history. It also produced some of the most emotionally vacant. Here's what went wrong and what it taught me about painting.

I've been painting the male figure for over twenty years. You'd think I'd have run out of things to say by now. I haven't. Here's why.

We talk about the male gaze in art as if it only ever pointed one direction. But when the subject is a male body, things get a lot more complicated — and a lot more interesting.

Antonio Pollaiuolo created one of the most debated images in Renaissance art — ten nude men locked in combat with no clear winner, no mythology, and no apology. Over 500 years later it still hasn't let go.

Paul Cadmus didn't paint the male figure from a distance. He painted it from memory, from desire, from life — and the result was work that still feels startlingly intimate decades later.

From Michelangelo to Mapplethorpe, these 12 male nude paintings didn't just make art history — they challenged everything we thought we knew about the male body, beauty, and what it means to be seen.