In a strange twist of fate, Diedrick Brackens's new weavings arrived in the world at about the same time as COVID-19, a disease that, like AIDS, disproportionately affects black Americans.
If we are to take the goal of foregrounding Indigenous values seriously, then "the map is not the territory" falls short.
The exhibition "Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist," on view at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia through January 14, 2019, restores one of the founders of Impressionism to the picture.
Doron Langberg invigorates the centuries-old traditions of genre painting and portraiture with high-key images whose surfaces combine myriad, at times discordant, textures.
Autoportrait (2017)—the sole work in Luke Willis Thompson's first solo exhibition in the UK, on view through August 27 at London's Chisenhale Gallery—focuses on a black subject afflicted by police…
The best of Dürer's late portraits apotheosize a group of leading converts to the Reformation in Germany, all close to Luther himself as well as to the artist. In a radically simplified style, Dürer a…
A show at the National Portrait Gallery takes a broad view of how artists consider identity in their work
By inventing her own genre, Cindy Sherman has influenced the way generations of artists think about photography, portraiture, narrative, and identity
In a new book, Martin Gayford recalls what it's like to be painted by Lucian Freud.
Entering either the second or fourth floor of the Whitney to see “Roni Horn aka Roni Horn,” a retrospective co-organized with Tate Modern in London, viewers were greeted by one or another version of T…