Myers, a Maryland high school student, has been named one of two winners of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery’s ...

Much of our understanding of history comes from written accounts, but it is art and photography (and notably portraits) that really brings these people and events to life. Take the 18th-century ...

Carmen Cartiness Johnson, The Octagon Room, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60”, Courtesy of the artist Credit: Courtesy of Blue Star Contemporary Given that it’s as old as the hills, including the ones ...

LATE in life, Paul Cézanne told his art dealer Ambroise Vollard that “the culmination of all art is the human face.” It’s a peculiar assertion, coming from the master of landscape and still-life, whom ...

A famous riposte: Gertrude Stein did not like the 1905-06 portrait that Pablo Picasso painted of her. Stein claimed it didn’t look like her, to which the artist responded: “It will.” What the artist ...

“He is the father of us all,” Picasso is quoted as saying of Cézanne. In this remarkable exhibition of 60 portraits from Cézanne's entire career, on view at The National Gallery of Art in Washington D ...

What would the "Mona Lisa" subject be like if she were a Gen-Z influencer? What about Salvador Dalí, if he were an urban photographer who wore skinny jeans and hoodies? An artist known as ...

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Everybody’s a critic. Even back in second century Egypt. While digging in Tebtunis in northern Egypt in the winter of 1899–1900, British archaeologists stumbled upon portraits of affluent ...

When selecting which portraits she would share to commemorate her 40th birthday this month, Kate Middleton took the advice of her husband Prince William and their three children, Prince George, ...

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LATE in life, Paul Cézanne told his art dealer Ambroise Vollard that “the culmination of all art is the human face.” It’s a peculiar assertion, coming from the master of landscape and still-life, whom ...