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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explore the enduring bonds and intimacies of modern love at the National Portrait Gallery Shantay Robinson | Museum Correspondent Family Portrait from the series "The ...

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Discover some of the best London art shows this summer season including Yoshitomo Nara at Hayward Gallery, Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern, Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery, and the ...

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 ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait has sold for $236.4m, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer sold after a 20-minute bidding war at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a dramatic new portrait of King Charles III caused a stir around the world earlier this week, many art experts are weighing ...

NEW YORK — A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold for $236.4 million in New York City on Tuesday, making it the second most expensive piece ever sold at auction and the priciest in the modern ...