Doja Cat’s entire face was covered in the paint, as was her shaved, platinum blonde head, her neck, shoulders, and decolletage. The only part of her body showing that wasn’t painted were her hands.

It’s hard to think of a more boring premise for an exhibition than the one behind “People,” on view at the Jeffrey Deitch gallery. Figurative sculpture, even created with nontraditional approaches and ...

In the late 1990s, Austrian Alex Barendregt stumbled across 1970s-era fashion photographs of German model Veruschka covered head-to-toe in body paint. He was intrigued, but his research failed to turn ...