In the 1960s photographer Bill Brandt put a twist on his portraits of famous artists — by zooming in all the way on just the eye. Here's a pretty weird, but kind of cool and completely random set of ...

WASHINGTON, DC — By confronting old, narrow definitions of what abstract modernist art is, Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction at the National Gallery of Art makes the case that textiles ...

Byron Kim crouched on a small tarp unfurled in the middle of the atrium at the National Gallery of Art’s East Building, studying NGA housekeeper Leora Wilson’s skin and a dab of oil paint he had mixed ...

The central question of portraiture is how to best turn its subjects inside out — how to best manipulate an inanimate medium so as to capture an animate sitter with a hidden history of invisible ...

EPHRAIM - The Hardy Gallery features large-scale, contemporary abstract paintings in its fourth and final exhibit of the season when "Surfaces" opens with an opening reception scheduled to take place ...

Michelangelo’s Carrara marble sculptures. Raphael highlighting his paintings with natural ultramarine derived from lapis lazuli. Gold leaf. Chinese jadeite bowls. Native American turquoise jewelry.