The blockbuster Johannes Vermeer show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is continuing to teach us more about the the Dutch Golden Age master, with experts at the museum’s symposium in March presenting X ...

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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 ...

When Vincent Van Gogh was low on money he took to painting on both sides of the canvas, but over the years some of his reverse side paintings were covered up and lost. Now, another of his hidden ...

Why do human beings always see themselves in everything: craggy rock formations, diffuse cloud clusters, dense swirls of paint on canvas? Basically, we’re just a bunch of unhinged egomaniacs with a ...

A never-before-seen self-portrait by Norman Cornish, the celebrated 20th-century painter from northern England, has been discovered on the back of one of his framed works. Cornish, known for his ...

If you think the selfie was born as a direct result of the cellphone, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” painted just over 500 years ago by Francesco Mazzola, the Italian artist commonly known as ...

A previously unknown self-portrait of celebrated Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh has been discovered hiding in plain sight on the back of another painting, the National Galleries of Scotland announced ...

Judith Leyster was mistaken for Frans Hals and not rediscovered until the end of the 19th century. But her smile was unmistakably her own. I love this self-portrait by Judith Leyster, a 17th-century ...

Artist Agnieszka Pilat with Basha, the robot dog, with some of the paintings created by the machine. (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) “I work for the machine and I’m very optimistic about ...

With a presale estimate of more than US$30 million, a self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, titled Diego y yo (Diego and I), is poised to become the most valuable Latin American art ever ...

Detail on the back of Vincent Van Gogh's "Head of a Peasant Woman" painting, seen June 19, 2022, in Edinburgh, Scotland. A previously unknown self-portrait of Van Gogh has been discovered behind the ...