“It’s not love, or tenderness, or affection, it’s life itself, my life, that I found when I saw it in your hands,” wrote Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera, in one of the many missives the couple shared over ...

Luca Del Baldo, ”Arthur C. Danto” (2010), oil on Belgian linen, 40 x 30 cm (all images courtesy of the artist) The title of the project is The Visionary Academy of Ocular Mentality. You could say that ...

No, reader, this is not a centuries-old painting of a shotgun wedding. Despite appearances, the woman in green is not believed to be pregnant. Art historians, in truth, have not come to many ...

Much of the permanent collection at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery reflects the long-venerated portraiture ...

After a dramatic new portrait of King Charles III caused a stir around the world earlier this week, many art experts are weighing in with their opinions about the painting. The bold portrait, painted ...

Perhaps I should have heeded the warning of John Singer Sargent. He was the greatest portrait painter of the late 1800s Gilded Age, and one of the most revered of all times, but Sargent was only in ...

An cropped version of Oprah Winfrey's portrait now on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., painted by Shawn Michael Warren. Under the oak trees of her Montecito, California ...

Selected Artworks Will Be Exhibited in Major Exhibition and Tour madison-hayes The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced an open call from Oct. 2 through Jan. 26, 2024, for submissions ...

Bartlett M. Frost’s diorama is modeled after John Trumbull's depiction of the presentation of the Declaration of Independence ...

Vincent van Gogh, "Portrait of the Artist" (1887) (photo by Adrien Didierjean; all images courtesy National Museum Cardiff) Some artists struggle with imposter syndrome, others with self-obsession, ...