Peter Heinemann, “Head 1987” (1987) (all images courtesy National Academy of Design) Forty years passed between my first hearing about Peter Heinemann’s self-portraits and my actually getting a chance ...

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 ...

Popular perceptions of van Gogh are often preoccupied with heart-wrenching accounts of mental illness, but Van Gogh: Self Portraits avoids speculative psychoanalytic readings of one tortured face ...

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 ...

Frida Kahlo transformed her profound physical and emotional suffering into a powerful visual language through her self-portraits. She used her art to confront pain, celebrate heritage, and express ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Angela covers fashion, beauty, and everything in-between. I come to visit Han Chong on a rainy July morning at the brand’s ...

Pretty much every single one of us is deeply self-conscious. We are self-conscious because we need to associate with other people in various ways, and we worry that, if they don’t like what we have to ...