“Portraiture Now: Staging the Self” will close at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery April 12. The exhibition, which opened last summer, includes 59 photographs, paintings and mixed-media ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Self-portraiture is usually seen as one of two things: either a somewhat narcissistic piece of art ...

When creating a self-portrait an artist is looking to answer—and ask—the question, “Who am I?” In the upcoming National Portrait Gallery exhibition ...

A current exhibit at Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art, titled “About Face: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art,” isn’t just a collection of artists’ self-portraits. It’s also a portrait of the ...

the word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries, drawing the requisite ire and eye-rolling that accompanies any addition of internet-age jargon to the lexicon. The idea of selfies in art has taken on a ...

Artist TM Davy explains how to draw a self-portrait in 11 levels of increasing complexity. Starting off with the ubiquitous "solar head" and moving on to portraits that implement light, shadow and ...

Persona: Exploring Self-Portraiture will premiere at the Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale on Saturday, April 26. It will feature the work of more than 20 contemporary artists as well as historical ...

It’s like we’re seeing ourselves again for the first time . . . A steady stream of tourists stroll beneath Chicago’s Cloud Gate sculpture on a rainy, early spring day in March. Commonly referred to as ...

Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster 3” — which is actually the fifth and final installment in his quintet of highly personal, avant-garde fables — opens and closes with scenes set at Fingal’s Cave in Scotland ...

Like a Ferrari parked in a garage in Emeryville, California, for way too long, Keith Boadwee is finally taking his show on the road. A transgressive artist, probably known best for his homoerotic yet ...