Mayo artist, Daniel Walsh – an 18-year old student from Claremorris – has been chosen overall winner of this year's 71st ...

American artist Kehinde Wiley has unveiled an exhibition in Morocco of portraits of African leaders as part of a yearslong ...

Across nearly 50 artworks spanning the last 18 years, American beauty takes on many forms on Sherald’s canvas. It can appear ...

Created in the Grotesque style, the 16th-century images—revealed by renovations at a lodge in England—mimic historic textile ...

Artists who accept commissions to paint portraits, no matter how esteemed they are in the realm of portraiture (or in fine art generally), learn to put their egos aside.

In Laurent Binet’s new novel, Michelangelo and others grapple with the fallout from a scandalous painting. If you think ...

In colonial Latin America – called “New Spain” by European colonists – images of a white Jesus reinforced a caste system where white, Christian Europeans occupied the top tier, while those with darker ...

The painting by British artist Sarah Boardman has been hanging in Colorado's State Capitol. Mr Trump said a portrait by the same artist of former US president Barack Obama was "wonderful" but "the ...