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 ...
"120 illustrations, 109 in color." In this broad cultural survey, art historian and critic James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus to the ...
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, ...
A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million at a New York art auction, becoming the top sale price for a work by any female artist. The painting of Kahlo ...
The assignment: create a self-portrait. Art history is full of self-portraits. The great masters through the ages — Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Albrecht Durer, Jan Van Eyck, Vincent Van Gogh, Frida ...
Brenda Goodman, “Self Portrait 4” (1994), diptych, oil on wood, installation view (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) DETROIT — Brenda Goodman has been steadily doing her thing for decades, ...
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 ...