An early acquaintance was Abu Waleed Muhammed Ibn Rushd, known in the West as Averroes - one of the Islamic world’s most influential philosophers, who was himself influenced by the Aristotelian ...

The painter whose portrait of Donald Trump was removed from the Colorado state Capitol after the US president branded it “truly the worst” says the criticism has put her four-decade art career ...

NASA photographer Josh Valcarcel captured Zena Cardman in a pose evocative of one of the first female astronaut's portraits. NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, who is assigned to fly to the ...

And one such message comes from self-portraits and the definitions people give to their expressions, their face, their lips or eyes, or even the way their hair looks. One of the most sad and ...

A portrait of President Donald Trump hung by state Republicans in the Colorado Capitol six years ago was removed this week after the president raged against it on social media. Trump took to his ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait of an African prince that was lost after World War II is on view at TEFAF Maastricht, bearing a €15 million ($16.4 million) price tag. When a collector presented the ...

Yet, it was in the many portraits also produced by Munch that he was able to attempt a slightly more subtle probing of the human condition. A group of more than 40 of these character studies have ...

By Michael Slenske For nearly seven decades, painter Don Bachardy has lured Hollywood luminaries — from Marlene Dietrich to Mark Ruffalo — to sit for portraits, most frequently inside his ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' latest play, starring LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Kara Young, observes a powerful Black family during a chaotic birthday weekend in Chicago. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Edvard Munch learnt quickly that “when I paint a person his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

But the artist didn’t stop with the postman: He painted the entire family, making 26 portraits of Roulin and his wife, Augustine, and their three children. It’s “one of the most impressive ...