This spring, it’s Paris calling. The French capital’s recent art history is the subject of two monumental surveys—one at the Centre Pompidou, the other at the Singaporean National Gallery of Art—that ...

And one such message comes from self-portraits and the definitions people give to their expressions, their face, their lips or eyes, or even the way their hair looks. One of the most sad and ...

NASA photographer Josh Valcarcel captured Zena Cardman in a pose evocative of one of the first female astronaut's portraits. NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, who is assigned to fly to the ...

Yet, it was in the many portraits also produced by Munch that he was able to attempt a slightly more subtle probing of the human condition. A group of more than 40 of these character studies have ...

By Michael Slenske For nearly seven decades, painter Don Bachardy has lured Hollywood luminaries — from Marlene Dietrich to Mark Ruffalo — to sit for portraits, most frequently inside his ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait of an African prince that was lost after World War II is on view at TEFAF Maastricht, bearing a €15 million ($16.4 million) price tag. When a collector presented the ...

A portrait of President Donald Trump hung by state Republicans in the Colorado Capitol six years ago was removed this week after the president raged against it on social media. Trump took to his ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Edvard Munch learnt quickly that “when I paint a person his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' latest play, starring LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young, observes a powerful Black family during a chaotic birthday weekend in Chicago. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts ...

In 1964, its director told the BBC why he broke every rule he could. Jean-Luc Godard was crystal clear about what he planned to do with his feature-length film debut, Breathless (À bout de ...

A portrait of Donald Trump has been removed from the Colorado State Capitol, after the US president claimed it was "purposefully distorted" and "truly the worst". Mr Trump took to Truth Social on ...