Explore the enduring bonds and intimacies of modern love at the National Portrait Gallery Shantay Robinson - Museum Correspondent Family Portrait from the series "The ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Brooklyn-based artist Kameron Neal as the first-prize winner of the seventh national Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Neal’s two-channel ...

In its 16th year, the Outwin Portrait Competition reflects the stunning vision of contemporary portrait-based art Many of this year’s 42 finalists (above: Customer Service Representative by Marianna ...

Amy Sherald — the visionary behind Michelle Obama’s iconic portrait — is once again making history. Next fall, she will become the first contemporary Black artist to have a solo exhibition at the ...

Plus, the National Portrait Gallery acquires Michael Armitage’s ode to essential workers and the largest ruby could fetch $30 million. As part of MoMA's 2019 rehang, Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles ...

The central question of portraiture is how to best turn its subjects inside out — how to best manipulate an inanimate medium so as to capture an animate sitter with a hidden history of invisible ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...