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 ...
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 ...
Vincent van Gogh, "Portrait of the Artist" (1887) (photo by Adrien Didierjean; all images courtesy National Museum Cardiff) Some artists struggle with imposter syndrome, others with self-obsession, ...
The first picture you see at “Lucian Freud: The Self Portraits” you could just as easily miss: It’s small and muddy, tucked to the side of a big block of wall text at the Museum of Fine Arts. Freud ...
Who are you, and what are you doing here? You, there in the mirror, there in the lens of your phone: What do you see? In the eyes of us poor moderns, it seems self-evident that a picture can capture ...
Most of the photographs in Tania Franco Klein’s show at Rose Gallery are self-portraits. She appears unaccompanied, but in a certain sense, she is not entirely alone. Other artists feel present: Jo ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Through self-examinations and social recriminations, Phillip Howze’s new show explores the injustices facing Black men. By Naveen Kumar The playwright ...
"Hotel Bedroom" (1954) by Lucian Freud, oil on canvas. Collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Enveloped in crumpled white sheets, Lady Caroline Hamilton Temple Blackwood looks anything but ...