These Famous Women Artists Changed the World With Their Self-Portraits. These deeply personal self-portraits did more than just mirror the artists—they sparked meaningful social conversations.

"Pre-Raphaelite Sisters," at London’s National Portrait Gallery, moves female creatives from the margins of a historical era and puts them at the center.

From a description of the print now, in 2017, it sounds perfectly traditional. A black-and-white etching on paper, an art form that has been around for 500 years. A portrait of a woman. In the ...

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London announced last week that it had added five self-portraits by female artists, including its first self-portrait of a Black woman, to its collections.

It matters not that these photographs were taken 35 years ago, what matters is that their messages and messengers remain as critical to America today as the instant they were taken.

The Blockfort Gallery presents “Lasting Legacies,” an exhibition shining a spotlight on female historical figures ranging from Celtic leader Boudica to Michelle Obama.

Hugo Crosthwaite has become the first Latino artist to win a prestigious competition held every three years by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.

With 'Little ?Women,' one of two films capturing artistic gender bias onscreen (the? other being 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'), Greta ?Gerwig, "like Louisa? May? Alcott before her, seeks to expand ...

Faint images of a women in Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto.". The Courtauld/Facebook “We have long suspected another painting lay behind the portrait,” he continued.

Richard Brody reviews “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” Céline Sciamma’s drama about a lesbian romance set in pre-Revolutionary France.

The image of a woman was revealed beneath Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" (1901) through infrared imaging organized by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

Minnesota artist Mark Balma is drawing on ancient techniques to create three huge frescoes for a church in Italy. He planned to do the work on site, but the pandemic intervened. As he faced a ...