Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

The central question of portraiture is how to best turn its subjects inside out — how to best manipulate an inanimate medium so as to capture an animate sitter with a hidden history of invisible ...

Amy Sherald — the visionary behind Michelle Obama’s iconic portrait — is once again making history. Next fall, she will become the first contemporary Black artist to have a solo exhibition at the ...

Lev Melikhov , “Igor Makarevich” (1980s), gelatin silver print, Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University (photo by Peter Jacobs) (all images courtesy of Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers ...

The ModPortrait exhibition, an event co-organized by Galería Artelibre and the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM), which brings together the best contemporary portrait artists worldwide, concluded ...

In 1789, Olaudah Equiano published a memoir titled The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. Equiano had been abducted from an Igbo ...

Artists have always recycled their era’s “Old Masters”: Romans quoted the Greeks, Rodin studied Michelangelo, and Picasso returned to Rembrandt, to name just a few. While the prevalence of these ...

For centuries the painted canvas, marble sculpture and photographic study of the human figure has served as a gateway to the past and the mind of the artist. Lately, though, portraiture has been ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the artist list and prizewinners for “The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today,” a major exhibition featuring juried selections from the ...

DPReview reader, Mark Lamb, serendipitously submitted a portrait-themed spotlight right before we announced our community self-portrait mini challenge. See what portraits he has to share! Mark Lamb, ...

Detail from ‘Self Portrait’ by Kelly Joy Ladd, on view as part of the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art exhibition Credit: photo courtesy of Orlando Museum of Art It’s Florida Prize time once again at ...