The silence in her work is tender, delicate and fierce all at once. In a world dominated by men, despite isolation, illness ...

Experts have long assumed that a painting at London's National Gallery is one of many replicas of an original Dürer portrait. Now, a new book claims that this cracked copy is the real deal ...

The winner of the National Portrait Gallery’s prestigious portraiture competition paints a disturbing picture of America.

Christie's set a new auction record for Artemisia Gentileschi, and the National Gallery of Art acquired a major work by the ...

Judy Chicago’s abstract portrait of the ill-fated Scottish royal is part of the artist’s Great Ladies series. Among Chicago’s ...

The curators of the forthcoming blockbuster Frida Kahlo show at Tate Modern have revealed more details about the exhibition, highlighting the late Mexican artist’s “impact on women artists across ...

This week, a historically significant and previously unaccounted for self-portrait of the pioneering 18th-century artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard turned up in a sale at Tajan auction house, in Paris.

For her Second Self photography series, Canadian artist Meryl McMaster asked her subjects to blindly draw single-line contous of their faces, which she then sculpted into wire masks. Worn over their ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Lois Dodd, active in the New York art ...

An abstract nude painting of scandal-clad journalist Olivia Nuzzi that is reportedly set to run in Vanity Fair has been revealed, according to an art-industry trade publication. ArtNews published the ...

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction. The painting of Kahlo asleep in a ...

A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million at a New York art auction, becoming the top sale price for a work by any female artist. The painting of Kahlo ...