In “Be Your Wonderful Self” at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, abstraction and portraiture achieve a remarkable unity. By Roberta Smith The art of the American painter Beauford Delaney, who died over four ...

A self-portrait by one of San Antonio's most generous art patrons has become part of the permanent collection of the McNay Art Museum. The painting by Harold Wood, former owner of the jet customizing ...

For an opening night reception of self-portraits displayed at the Mead Art Museum gallery, Wildwood School’s first-grade artists become the center of attention, having the opportunity to talk about ...

The blockbuster Johannes Vermeer show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is continuing to teach us more about the the Dutch Golden Age master, with experts at the museum’s symposium in March presenting X ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

One of the biggest price tags at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach is attached to one of its smallest works. A Frida Kahlo self-portrait measuring 5cm tall is being shown on the stand of Weinstein ...

Lucy Jones painted her first nude self-portrait at 50. She was in New York with her husband Peter Leach, she said, when he “took a picture of my backside. I thought, ‘Well I don’t look too bad from ...

Popular perceptions of van Gogh are often preoccupied with heart-wrenching accounts of mental illness, but Van Gogh: Self Portraits avoids speculative psychoanalytic readings of one tortured face ...

How do you get an entire city to make an artistic statement about the way it sees itself? One that doesn't weigh celebrity over average citizens, or technical proficiency over untrained visions and ...

The authenticity of Paul Gauguin's 1903 self-portrait has long been the subject of debate. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons According to naval records, Paul Gauguin’s eyes were brown. In early self ...