Art
Some Thoughts About England’s Obsession With Portraits
With the possible exception of Howard Hodgkin, not a single English abstract artist has attained anything comparable to the status achieved by Lucien Freud or David Hockney.
Portraiture
History
How Scientists Use and Abuse Portraiture
Many scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.
Art
How Do You Paint Portraiture Without a Portrait?
By negating the figure, Amir H. Fallah expands the limits of portraiture to make space for multiple interpretations.
Art
Artists and Scholars Join to Discuss the Creation of Black Visual Archives
The free-to-attend Black Portraiture[s] conference will focus on the creation of visual archives in the context of landmark moments in Black history.
Art
Portraits that Feel Like Chance Encounters and Hazy Recollections
Nathaniel Quinn’s first museum solo show features work which suggests that reality might best be recognized by its disjunctions rather than by single-point perspective.
Art
The Enabler
If measured as a flame to kindling, John D. Graham was arguably the most consequential figure in 20th-century American art.
Art
How van Dyck Laid the Foundation of Modern Portraiture
Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture, currently at the Frick Collection, provides a window onto how the premier Baroque portrait style came together in the busy studio of a gifted, if short-lived, painter.
News
The Frick Scores a Trove of 450 Historical Medals
The Frick Collection is adding an impressive cache of metal portraits to its collections.
Art
A Photographer Documents the Highs and Lows of LGBTQ Life in South Africa
This past Sunday was both an auspicious and sobering time to visit the Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence.
Art
Photographing the Humans of the Street
Photographer Mikaël Theimer’s project Humans of the Street chronicles a group often overlooked amid the hustle and bustle of city life: the homeless.
Art
A Man's Portraits Over 60 Years, Set Against the Backdrop of a Changing China
In 2007, Chinese photography collector Tong Bingxue received a phone call from a man seeking an appraisal for a recently purchased book of photo portraits. As Bingxue recounts in A Life in Portraits, a quick examination of the book revealed a startlingly unique, unified subject: one man’s yearly por
Opinion
Mayor Bloomberg Unveils His Official Portrait
Today, after 12 years, Michael Bloomberg will leave his post as the mayor of New York City. He's left us two gifts: a ban on e-cigs and an official portrait.