From his early tapestry designs to his compelling portraits, provocative "gentlemen's paintings," engaging genre scenes and satirical etchings and drawings, Goya portrayed the multifaceted world ...

The Frick Collection, New Museum, The Met, and Delacorte Theater will all re-welcome visitors this year as part of the city's ...

After a five-year hiatus from its original home in a Gilded Age mansion, the Frick Collection is back, and it's more ...

The objects, including what the museum describes as England's oldest known figurative art work, will head to Bradford for a ...

This isn’t the first time that his life and work have been the subject of sustained attention: Terry Zwigoff’s 1994 documentary “Crumb” is among the finest cinematic portraits of ... painter and ...

"The paintings must be interesting as paintings ... All Cézanne's apples I would give away / For one small Goya or a Daumier." Portraits—people—prove a uniquely apt lens for bringing ...

A new exhibition at Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley will showcase some of the oldest art found in the UK, alongside more ...

European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...

American artist Kehinde Wiley has unveiled an exhibition in Morocco of portraits of African leaders as part of a yearslong ...

The White House moved the official portrait of former President Barack Obama to a new location in the building’s Grand Foyer, replacing it with a painting of President Donald Trump with his fist ...

Artists who accept commissions to paint portraits, no matter how esteemed they are in the realm of portraiture (or in fine art generally), learn to put their egos aside.