The American painter Thomas S. Buechner is best known for his portraits. His is the portrait of Alice Tully that hangs in Alice Tully Hall, in Lincoln Center, and his portrait of a teenage girl named ...

The painting was looted from Baron Philippe de Rothschild in 1940 and memorialized in an iconic photograph. Nicolas de Largillière, Portrait d'une femme, à mi-corps. The Monuments Men recovered the ...

According to a recent article on Bloomberg, modern art portraits of women sell for more than modern art portraits of men. Citing Jeremiah Everts, Sotheby’s head of Impressionist and Modern Art, the ...

These magnificent portraits by the artist Kris Knight, taken from his latest series, Secrets Are The Things We Grow, offer a supple beauty, both relenting and quietly powerful. "This new series of ...

Oxford University is replacing some portraits of famous men with female, black and gay leaders to counter its ‘male, pale and stale’ image. It is commissioning artists to paint dozens of new portraits ...

Ruven Afanador’s love affair with flamenco started long before he ever caught an actual performance. As a child living in Colombia, hearing tales of the gypsy dancers of southern Spain, Afanador says ...

A Smithsonian traveling exhibition powerfully dismantles corrosive myths with triumphant portraits and the stories of African American men Shantay Robinson - Museum Correspondent "Fathering" is a ...

There's a good reason why Reginald Rose's "Twelve Angry Men" is an enduring American classic. Though a little staid by contemporary standards, it is a crackling and gripping drama that exposes the ...