Posted 05.04.2012
With an art career spanning from 1920 to the 1980s, Alice Neel painted family, poets, singers, bohemians, strangers and celebrities. She famously stuc...
Kisa Lala | Posted 04.16.2012
By Kiša Lala Kehinde Wiley's Benediter Brkou (The World Stage: Israel), 2011, oil and gold and silver enamel on canvas. Private Collection. © Ke...
Kirsten Chilstrom | Posted 04.02.2012
Until April 14, the Ten 43 gallery in Manhattan is featuring the work of acclaimed European photographer Uli Weber, concentrating on his signature creative portraiture.
Posted 03.05.2012
Kehinde Wiley's paintings challenge our conventional views of portraiture by featuring black men in a mix of regal and street poses, using the brighte...
Catherine Despont | Posted 05.02.2012
If there is something lonely and frightening in these images, there is also something dream-like and remembered -- something fed by our own fantasies -- the desire for freedom and safety, the desire to provide for oneself.
Posted 03.01.2012
Georgia O’Keefe once wrote to Mabel Dodge Luhan, “I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore.” With this in ...
AP | By JONATHAN LOPEZ | Posted 04.09.2012
-- "The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, `Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer'" (Knopf), by Anne-Marie O'Connor: In 1907...
Posted 03.27.2012
There is something bourgeois, even aristocratic about sitting for a portrait, engaged in the labor of sitting still. That contributes to the unexpecte...
Posted 01.25.2012
The portrait (up there with landscapes, nudes and religious icons) is one of the great themes enduring throughout art history. For centuries artists h...
Posted 01.18.2012
Chinese creative agency senseteam (site currently down) gave new meaning to the phrase "made of money" when they created a series of artworks using cu...
Posted 01.10.2012
Notorious B.I.G. once said "Mo money, mo problems," and no one knows this quite like the Medici family. The ruling patrons of 14th century Florenc...
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 01.06.2012
Caleb Cole describes himself on his website as "a former altar server, scout, and 4-H Grand Champion in Gift Wrapping." He is also a photographer who ...
Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 02.20.2012
Posted 11.23.2011
This week at HuffPost Arts we catalogued out top ten duet in popular music, revealed the wild behavior of some very famous artists and marked the end ...
Kate Kelly | Posted 11.22.2011
The story revealed by the exhibit is of a time before there were paparazzi. From the 1920s through the 1950s, movie studios molded the images and the careers of their stars.
Mia R. Benenate | Posted 10.05.2011
Perhaps it is in the longer exposure, or perhaps it comes from the age of the medium itself, but Collodion brings out a side of those captured in its lens usually reserved for private moments of reflection in the mirror.
VernissageTV | Posted 09.30.2011
Back in 1888, when Berta Benz made the pioneering long distance trip with her husband's car, no one could imagine traffic jams or even "Carmageddons"....
Wendy Diamond | Posted 09.27.2011
Rory Mackay is a classically trained artist with penchant for painting pooches! While he may not have predicted that the four-legged set would so th...
AP | By GREGORY KATZ | Posted 09.20.2011
LONDON -- In a time when other artists spilled their paints on the canvas, Lucian Freud carefully wiped his brush after every stroke. He painted inten...
Brett Baker | Posted 09.14.2011
From an exhibition of new landscape and portrait paintings by Leon Kossoff, who works for years on each canvas, to an exhibition of "Unfinished Painti...
Posted 09.14.2011
Happy birthday to Rembrant van Rijn, who was born today, the 15th of July in 1606. A prominent painter and etcher of the Dutch Golden Age, Rembrant is...
Posted 09.14.2011
Canadian photography company 2D Photography has realized the lost dream of many people's childhoods: to build a Rube Goldberg style machine. The idea ...
Evelyne Politanoff | Posted 09.14.2011
AP | By ANTHONY McCARTNEY | Posted 09.09.2011
LOS ANGELES -- The University of Texas system and Ryan O'Neal are sparring over ownership of an Andy Warhol portrait of the actor's longtime companion...
Daniel Maidman | Posted 05.15.2012