will explore the unlikely bond between Kate Moss and Lucian Freud, who together curated the masterpiece in 2002. Titled Naked Portrait 2002, the distinguished artwork captured a nude ...

Victoria Siddall, now in one of art’s most prestigious jobs, talks balancing family, work and the environmental impact of ...

NMWA's large-scale presentation, 'Uncanny,' is the first to approach the psychological concept in art through a feminist lens ...

A queer art scholar claimed that the National Portrait Gallery omitted Felix González-Torres’ connection to the AIDS crisis.

99 x 90.5 cm. (39 x 35.6 in.) ...

Martin Gayford is an art critic and the author of studies of Constable and Van Gogh. In 2003 he offered to sit for a portrait by Lucian Freud, whom he had known both professionally and as a friend for ...

Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.

German Expressionist artist Gabriele Münter was long-overshadowed by her 12-year romance with Wassily Kandinsky. Now she ...

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LUCIAN BAN was raised in a small village in northwest Transylvania, in “the region where Bartok did his most extensive research and collecting of folk songs" and grew up listening to both traditional ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across ...