The ultimate prize for the winner is a commission to have their artwork displayed in the prestigious National Portrait Gallery for the summer season. Bree Pickering, Director of the National Portrait ...

The National Portrait Gallery, London, has recently acquired a series of photographs by infamous 1980s photography duo, the Douglas Brothers. The portraits feature important cultural icons of the 90s, ...

As he stood in the Art Gallery of Peterborough looking at the large portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, Alex Bierk says he can “hear my dad painting on it, being excited about working on it.” The city ...

The print, measuring only 10 by 12 centimeters in size, portrays the great writer in his prime, set against a shelf full of ...

Installation view, Isaac Julien: “Lessons of the Hour,” SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Sept. 24–Dec. 15, 2019. Copyright Isaac Julien, courtesy the artist and ...

Hans Holbein the Younger was known to have painted three portraits of the Dutch humanist philosopher and theologian Desiderius Erasmus in 1523, when they were both living in the Swiss city of Basel.

Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Friday, July 21. Climate Activists Attack ...

The BP Portrait Award 2014, which opens at the National Portrait Gallery this week, might seem to some like the celebration of a dying art. In our digital age, portraiture might seem to be less and ...

Back in 2018, Old Master art dealer Fergus Hall first floated the idea that a 17th-century portrait owned by Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery attributed to Anthony van Dyck’s workshop was actually the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — In Chicago’s Ravenswood ...

A 'cursed' painting of a stern-faced little girl in a red dress that was returned twice to a charity shop over claims it was haunted features in a new Halloween exhibition. Visitors to the new ...