Whether it’s the warm weather, the annoying loudness of neighbors or, I don’t know, the daily horrors in the news, sitting down with a book has never seemed more difficult. In the past few weeks, I ...

“Whatever was mortal in Albrecht Dürer lies beneath this mound,” reads the epitaph on Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer’s grave. The elegy’s suggestion of his superhuman status is not without ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Self-portraiture is usually seen as one of two things: either a somewhat narcissistic piece of art ...

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 ...

Founded by Han Chong in 2013, Self-Portrait has grown from a promising newcomer into a fully-fledged contemporary fashion force. What started as a lace-drenched, mid-priced alternative to luxury ...

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Pretty much every single one of us is deeply self-conscious. We are self-conscious because we need to associate with other people in various ways, and we worry that, if they don’t like what we have to ...

A self-portrait by Rembrandt sold for £14.5 million ($18.7 million) at a virtual auction Tuesday – a record price for a self-portrait by the Dutch master, according to auctioneer Sotheby’s. The ...

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London announced last week that it had added five self-portraits by female artists, including its first self-portrait of a Black woman, to its collections. The ...

“Every painting is a self-portrait,” the late Boston artist Ralph Hamilton used to say. But some paintings — and drawings and photographs — really are portraits of the artist who made them. Boston’s ...

It was this self-portrait that kick-started art critic Laura Cumming’s fascination with the genre as a child. Never before had she felt that a painting of a person could feel like looking at a real ...

Selfies have taken over social media newsfeeds, filling screens with snapshots of people striking perfect poses in sublime settings, laughing with friends, or caught in quiet moments alone. These ...