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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
When Vincent Van Gogh was low on money he took to painting on both sides of the canvas, but over the years some of his reverse side paintings were covered up and lost. Now, another of his hidden ...
“Whatever was mortal in Albrecht Dürer lies beneath this mound,” reads the epitaph on Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer’s grave. The elegy’s suggestion of his superhuman status is not without ...
Apple Martin posed with a white python for Self-Portrait’s Resort 2026 campaign, shot by photographer Ryan McGinley at an upstate New York apple orchard. An apple and a snake tempt visitors to a lush ...
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 ...
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