Self-Portrait in Black and White, by Thomas Chatterton Williams. W. W. Norton. 192 pages. $25.95. What a strange thing is “race,” and family, stranger still. “Here’s the thing. I’m a black woman from ...

Artists have painted self-portraits since at least as long ago as 1433, when Jan van Eyck painted a man with a severe gaze in a red headdress, generally agreed to represent the creator himself. That ...

The background of the portrait is a black cloth, commonly used in those days for photographic backdrops. Daddy is wearing a coat over a white T-shirt. His gaze is not directed straight at the camera ...

Frida Kahlo painted herself more than anyone else, not because she was vain, as she once quipped, but because she was “the subject I know best.” The line is often repeated, yet it barely captures the ...

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