Fatemeh Hammami Nasrabadi is 85 percent paralyzed, but she found the strength to pursue her passion of becoming an artist.

During his baffling anti-art tenure, former prime minister Stephen Harper (who is ) officially halted funding for a portrait ...

A revelatory show in San Marino puts Don Bachardy’s prolific portrait drawings into a welcome new light. The absorbing survey shows how movies were an influence, but the appeal goes beyond celebrity ...

Under soft gallery lights, faces look back at you from the walls of the Omani Society for Fine Arts. Some are familiar, ...

Meghan Dinsmore’s Art III students most recent projects will find their homes across the globe in the hands of Russian schoolchildren. Dinsmore’s students are participating in the Memory Project, a ...

Giant portraits of Aboriginal people painted on buildings and canvases across the world are drawing attention to Indigenous issues says former graffiti artist, turned portrait artist, Matt Adnate. Mr ...

WASHINGTON — They arrive at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., with one mission. “Where are the Obamas?” one of the ladies asks. The information desk attendant directs ...

More than a century ago, critic Matthew Arnold predicted that poetry of the future would synthesize rather than discover, and this certainly proved true in the realm of visual art, where it has become ...

WASHINGTON – The Smithsonian’s presidential portraits are feeling the selfie love. The new paintings of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, attracted big crowds to the National ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The official presidential portraits of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama were unveiled Monday at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Galllery in Washington, D.C., and the images ...