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An exultant sense of discovery is the propelling through line of ''Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich Bin Ich / I Am Me,'' a glorious exhibition at the Neue Galerie that is, surprisingly, [...]

An exultant sense of discovery is the propelling through line of ''Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich Bin Ich / I Am Me,'' a glorious exhibition at the Neue Galerie that is, surprisingly, [...]

Byline: Sebastian Smee WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - During the most tumultuous period in France's modern history, Guillaume Lethière was one of its most venerated artists. His story is epic. Charles Dickens [...]

In his first show of new work in over a decade, he has been occupied with a single subject: a portrait of a woman, in which he finds endless variation [...]

Byline: Philip Kennicott Stare at the face painted by the great Spanish artist Diego Velázquez for as long as you like, it will not yield any clear sense of expression. [...]

The Chazen Museum of Art in Wisconsin is presenting ''re:mancipation,'' a multifaceted effort to add context to a 130-year-old sculpture. This article is part of our Museums special section about [...]

Byline: Gillian Brockell The National Portrait Gallery unveiled a rare portrait of President Abraham Lincoln on Friday, ahead of Lincoln's 214th birthday. The nine-foot-tall portrait, painted by W.F.K. Travers in [...]

The German-born artist brought his brand of modernism to the United States and was fascinated by all the different faces he could find here. In 1925, a German immigrant named [...]

Byline: Mark Jenkins WASHINGTON - The sort of person depicted in the National Portrait Gallery's 'The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today' is quite different from those typically represented in such [...]

Byline: Kelsey Ables It has been eight months since the portraits of former president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald left Washington, D.C., [...]

In a virtuosic solo show at the Whitney, the artist finds her subjects' complex humanity, and offers a new way forward for representation. Portraiture is everywhere at the moment, in [...]

Byline: Philip Kennicott 'The Medici: Portraits and Politics 1512-1570,' an absorbing new exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, has moments so powerful they sting like the pangs of [...]

Growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant in the 1980s, the artist Kambui Olujimi had a fulfilled childhood in the span of a single block, on Quincy Street. Families shared cultural roots in [...]

This remarkable exhibition features the inventively constructed paintings of family, friends and colleagues that portray the artist's world and his place in it. Benny Andrews once defined his artistic ambition [...]

The British artist's new show at the Morgan Library & Museum derives its poignant power from its focus on loved ones and the complex nature of relationships. Whether we're related [...]

A new exhibition, ''Every Eye Is Upon Me: First Ladies of the United States,'' will gather portraits and other artistic representations of first ladies. Over and over, after poring over [...]

Byline: Patrick Varine April 09-- Apr. 9--Members of Franklin Regional's National Art Honor Society may be stuck at home amid the coronavirus pandemic, but their artwork continues to make a [...]

Byline: JoAnne Klimovich Harrop March 11-- Mar. 11--Tom Mosser gives new meaning to face time. The artist from Pittsburgh's East End created a portrait show called 'Really Big Faces' featuring [...]

Byline: Sebastian Smee 'How do you like your Sargent drawing?' That, hilariously, was the conversational icebreaker adopted by a distinguished diplomat whenever he found himself seated beside ladies he didn't [...]

Byline: Suzette Moyer and Junne Alcantara Artist Gayle Kabaker has been making colorful, vivid illustrations for more than 35 years - several gracing the cover of the New Yorker magazine. [...]

Visitors to ''Inside Art'' can make their own work and collaborate with other artists. The show is just one of several activities available during school break. On a recent visit [...]

[To read more provocative stories on race from The New York Times, sign up for our Race/Related newsletter here.] NEWNAN, Ga. -- It was the Saturday afternoon that this small [...]

Byline: Sebastian Smee 'How do you like your Sargent drawing?' That, hilariously, was the conversational icebreaker adopted by a distinguished diplomat whenever he found himself seated beside ladies he didn't [...]

AMSTERDAM -- Elisabeth Samson, an 18th-century freeborn black woman, made millions as a coffee planter and exporter using slave labor in the Dutch colony of Suriname. She was one of [...]

Piotr Uklanski has a brush with fantasy portraits in ''Ottomania,'' his new gallery show that melds East and West. For someone who has ricocheted from one medium to another long [...]

What a difference a presidential portrait makes. Two years ago, Amy Sherald's painting career was slowly if belatedly picking up steam. She was 44 and after a four-year hiatus from [...]

Michael Saviello sat on a little stool in a Chelsea art gallery wiping sweat from his forehead as his new gallerists breathlessly praised his latest paintings. Mr. Saviello, known to [...]

Byline: KATE TAYLOR, Staff OTTAWA -- Lead In 1891, artist Paul Gauguin arrived in the French colony of Tahiti looking for an exotic paradise and convinced that he could make [...]

'MORONI: THE RICHES OF RENAISSANCE PORTRAITURE' AT THE FRICK COLLECTION (Through Sunday) Giovanni Battista Moroni, among the best of underappreciated Renaissance painters, brought a new level of naturalism to his [...]

Byline: Sebastian Smee NEW YORK - One of the most celebrated portraits of the Renaissance has traveled from London to New York to take its place in a jewel of [...]