In a zoom presser on March 18, Sherald sat down with Franklin Sirmans, Director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, to talk about her work. “The great American fact is a statement that we've been here all…
Portrait
CHICAGO – The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce that its doors will reopen on February 11.Bisa Butler: Portraits, which opened last…
The winning portraits will remain on display in an online exhibition on the National Portrait Gallery’s website through March 21, 2021. This is the first time in the history of the award…
Thursday morning, Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel by Sandro Botticelli broke the record for sales of Old Masters at Sotheby’s when it sold for $92.2 million, in the first marquee sale…
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2020 is the leading international competition, open to all, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography from around…
Experts are anticipating a record-breaking sale in January when a rare Sandro Botticelli portrait comes to auction.
A stunning, intimate portrait by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens is set to make waves at auction this week.
A collaboration with the Richmond Symphony's "Comfort and Joy!" – the Beethoven Summer Series, this video explores connections between the composer and Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun's "Portrait of…
As protests surrounding the death of George Floyd have erupted across the US and around the world, artists have joined their voices in the call to honor his life, put an end to…
A celebrated painter in her own time, Thérèse Schwartze later fell into obscurity. Now she is being rediscovered.
For more than four decades, photographer Dawoud Bey has documented life in America through his poignant images of marginalized communities.
Anna Ancher was one of the central Danish artists active around 1900.
Widely considered to be one of the most important figurative painters working today, Yiadom-Boakye is celebrated for her enigmatic oil paintings of human subjects who are entirely imagined by the…
Cradled in the palm of the hand or worn close to the heart, portrait miniatures were never intended for public consumption, but rather, functioned as personal tokens of affection, love, or memorial.
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has recently acquired portraits of the six 2019 American Portrait Gala honorees, including three commissions. On view for the first time will be portraits…
