The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will display photographs of 19th-century activists and professionals in “Women of Progress: Early Camera Portraits,” a presentation of 10 daguerreotypes and ...

The Russian empress Catherine the Great once described her lover Grigory Potemkin as "one of the great originals of the age." She was surely right about the empire-building Potemkin, but it was ...

The scans show traces of a woman's portrait that Picasso had painted over in 1901. The Courtauld Institute of Art Researchers have uncovered a hidden painting beneath Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Mateu ...

An artist amazed millions by creating a stunning portrait using turmeric, red chilli powder, and matchsticks, proving creativity knows no limits. Creativity truly knows no bounds, and an Indian artist ...

From a description of the print now, in 2017, it sounds perfectly traditional. A black-and-white etching on paper, an art form that has been around for 500 years. A portrait of a woman. In the ...

Two years after Kabul was captured by the Taliban, Maliha Kazimi wants to make sure the world doesn’t forget about the lives of Afghan women. Kazimi, who was a journalist in Afghanistan, fled to ...