Since time immemorial, humans have used art, skills, and creativity to send out messages. From the early caveman who drew a boar and running humans to indicate danger, to the modern, contemporary ...

A current exhibit at Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art, titled “About Face: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art,” isn’t just a collection of artists’ self-portraits. It’s also a portrait of the ...

The selfie is a smartphone-produced version of the self-portrait, which has been a staple of art and photography history since artists first began seeing examining their own images in the mirror. In ...

We humans have been gazing at our reflections for eternity. Fascinated by our own visage we have sought to preserve it in sculpture, painting, photography, video. Our portraits are as individual as ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

In mid-January 1889, three weeks after mutilating his ear, Van Gogh painted two astonishing self-portraits, depicting himself with a prominent bandage, covering his mutilated ear. The famous one is in ...