American artist Beverly McIver crafts deeply personal and emotional portraits and self-portraits that, through their specificity, manage to tap into the universal. A range of these recent works are ...

Frida Kahlo is an artist whose influence far outstrips the numbers on an auctioneer’s hammer — yet those numbers tell their own story. When a Kahlo painting comes up for sale, the art world sits up ...

Neue Galerie curatorial director Janis Staggs discusses Paula Modersohn-Becker's last portrait. The full-size work by Paula Modersohn-Becker, Selbstbildnis mit zwei Blumen in der erhobenen linken Hand ...

With a presale estimate of more than US$30 million, a self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, titled Diego y yo (Diego and I), is poised to become the most valuable Latin American art ever ...

One of the biggest price tags at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach is attached to one of its smallest works. A Frida Kahlo self-portrait measuring 5cm tall is being shown on the stand of Weinstein ...

Nine years after the death of Lucian Freud, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is providing a new, intimate look into the development of the figurative painter’s artistic expression. Freud is one of the ...

Abby Ferguson Confession: this year has been a complicated one for me and my relationship with photography. It's been a year of conflicting emotions and unanswered questions about how to move forward ...

A recent study of 18 major American museums found that 85 percent of art in their collections is by White artists, and 87 percent by men. That makes it nearly impossible for people of color to walk ...

Contemporary womenswear brand Self-Portrait has unveiled its Lunar New Year campaign—a cinematic series that lovingly pays homage to Hong Kong TV dramas. Shot by photographer Feng Li, it is a ...

VINCENT VAN GOGH made 30; Frida Kahlo, 55. Rembrandt van Rijn’s are thought to number in the dozens (since his apprentices often copied them, it is hard to be certain). Self-portraits have always been ...