A famous riposte: Gertrude Stein did not like the 1905-06 portrait that Pablo Picasso painted of her. Stein claimed it didn’t look like her, to which the artist responded: “It will.” What the artist ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1352): These two photos were shot by Leon Borensztein when he was a journeyman portrait photographer in the 1980s, paid to take peoples’ pictures in their homes. On top of the standard ...

It's hard to forget who Kehinde Wiley is after you've seen one of the New York-based painter's works. Whether he's painting Swizz Beatz, a pair of men he met during his travels in Cameroon, or the ...

Lomography is looking to make old new again with the reinvention of a 19th century lens known as the Petzval. This lens creates an instantly recognizable image style famous for its sharpness, color ...

Carmen Cartiness Johnson, The Octagon Room, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60”, Courtesy of the artist Credit: Courtesy of Blue Star Contemporary Given that it’s as old as the hills, including the ones ...

“He is the father of us all,” Picasso is quoted as saying of Cézanne. In this remarkable exhibition of 60 portraits from Cézanne's entire career, on view at The National Gallery of Art in Washington D ...

In the Metropolitan Museum of Manila’s newest exhibit, Postura, prominent portrait artist Romulo “Mulong” Galicano and renowned designer Patis Tesoro bring new life to the traditional Filipiniana and ...

Tony O’Malley probably produced more self-portraits than any other Irish artist, even if we count William Orpen’s many self-deprecating essays in the genre. In their attitudes to their identities as ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The detail was all-important. In 1900s Vienna, while Sigmund Freud fretted over the slip of a tongue and Adolf Loos ...