News
Portrait of Enslaved Man Dispels Years of Falsehoods
The truth of Frederick Baker’s life was long obscured by a whitewashed history perpetuated by the Longwood mansion in Mississippi, new research says.
Portraiture
Features
Arewà Basit on Her Amy Sherald Portrait and Alchemizing Trans Joy
“How people are perceiving me is not my business,” the performance artist and model told Hyperallergic. “What I can do to make the world a better place is my business.”
Art Review
Is Jenny Saville the UK’s Greatest Living Painter?
Enormous in scale, Saville's uncomfortably close-cropped depictions of women’s faces and nude bodies abound in the joy of painterly modeling.
Features
When Chinese Astrology Becomes Portraiture
When John Clang read my ziwei doushu chart, he helped me discover a new way of depicting myself — without a camera, pencil, or paintbrush.
Books
This Is Not the Real Geronimo
Elbridge Ayer Burbank’s haunting paintings of the Apache leader capture a likeness that was only ever real from the vantage point of a White man with a gun, canvas, or camera.
News
Colorado Legislature Bows to Trump’s Demands to Remove “Distorted” Portrait
The president said the painting, which had hung in the state’s capitol since 2019, was “truly the worst.”
Book Review
Returning the Gaze of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits
As an artist, reading Euphrosyne Doxiadis’s book made me consider how we can draw inspiration from Egyptian art while engaging it thoughtfully — reverently, even.
Art
Riva Lehrer’s Portraits Bring Out the Beauty in Difference
The artist has long been fighting for people with disabilities or marginalized identities, with sincerity, courage, and fierce love for the monsters in us all.
News
Artist of Fiery King Charles Portrait Debuts Moss-Green Attenborough Painting
Green? For David Attenborough? Groundbreaking.
News
An Early Portrait Commissioned by an American Born Into Slavery Goes on View
Now on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the painting is thought to depict Mary Ann Tritt Cassell, a mixed-race woman who lived in the 1800s.
News
Rediscovered Rembrandt Portraits May Be the Artist’s Smallest Paintings
The tiny pair of oval paintings of an older couple from Rembrandt's family circle will be displayed for the first time in nearly 200 years.
News
YOU Get a Portrait, Oprah!
A new painting of the media mogul by Chicago artist Shawn Michael Warren is joining the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.