Still capture from “A Portrait of Berenice Sarmiento Chávez” by Hugo Crosthwaite (Image courtesy the artist, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, and the Smithsonian.) “Trailblazer (A Dream Deferred)” (2017) by ...

In its 16th year, the Outwin Portrait Competition reflects the stunning vision of contemporary portrait-based art Many of this year’s 42 finalists (above: Customer Service Representative by Marianna ...

At the behest of the art-loving Obamas, Virginia Shore, the center’s curator of commissions, has contracted 30 artists to create works for the center. That’s just the beginning.

When artist Robert McCurdy was taking the high-resolution photograph he would use to paint President Barack Obama's official portrait, he had some instructions: No smile, no gestures and look directly ...

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 ...

Against patterned blue wallpaper like a rich backdrop in a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger, a young woman with a buzz ...

Book Imagines a Single Face Painted By History’s Greatest Painters Across Time and Imagined eras—from Pompeii to the ...

When Jonathan Yeo's painting went viral, it was the “jolt” of red that resonated more than any royal symbolism. (photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) After Jonathan Yeo’s “Portrait of His Majesty King ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An art handler views Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Gustav Klimt during a press preview at Sotheby’s in New York City on Nov. 7.

Women Painting Women, the new exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, features 46 artists from the past 50 years. You've said you were inspired to create Women Painting Women by the ...