Andy Warhol fact portrait in “Artists, Writers, Thinkers, Dreamers” (all images by James Gulliver Hancock, courtesy Chronicle Books) Did you know that the Chupa Chups lollipop logo was designed by ...

The role a Detroit-born artist played in the New York art world of the 1980s is explored in "Make Me Famous," a scrappy look at the life, influence and struggle of East Village expressionist Edward ...

As the first president of the United States, George Washington is one of the most recognizable figures in American history.

Conservators in London, England used infrared and X-ray imaging to reveal a never-before-seen portrait of a woman beneath a popular painting by renowned artist Pablo Picasso. The Courtauld Institute ...

Beginning in the late ’60s, David Hockney painted a series of seven large-scale double portraits featuring friends and lovers, mostly in the art world. This November, one of those paintings will go on ...

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where art historian Elizabeth Block works, there’s always a crowd near John Singer Sargent’s Madame X (1884). Everyone wants to spy that black slinky dress, and ...

Whether you admire the emotional canvases of the Italian Renaissance or get curious about contemporary art installations, art has the power to breach boundaries, evoke certain emotions, and inspire ...

A museum in Hartford is now featuring a famous portrait of Henry VIII. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art said Hans Holbein’s Portrait of Henry VIII (1540) is currently on display. Stream ...

Artists Wiley and Sherald have been commissioned to paint the Obamas’ portraits. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton prepares to deliver remarks after her portrait was presented, April 24, 2006, at the ...

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between 1600 and 1750, including Koerten, Judith Leyster and Clara Peeters Meilan ...