Dreweatts Auction House in London will offer a work by Joan Carlile, widely believed to be the first female portrait painter active in Britain during the 17th century, at its Old Master, British, and ...

Miranda Roggenbuck lied to her teachers when they asked her what she wanted to do for a career. She copied her friend’s answer and said she wanted to be a veterinarian, all because she was often ...

The first major US survey of the enigmatic Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980) opens at the de Young Museum in San Francisco this month, with more than 120 works—and newly uncovered ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Right: "Woman holding flower" (a): ...

If you are in an office now, have a look around to see what are on the walls. If it is the kind of workplace or institution that displays paintings or photographs, what are they of? Are any of the ...

This month, the focus is on women as this Saturday marks International Women’s Day. Acclaimed visual artist Giorgos Gerontidis contributes to the occasion in his own way by holding a new painting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. British artist Tracey Emin has hand drawn 45 female portraits that have been cast in bronze on the three doors that form the new ...

According to a recent article on Bloomberg, modern art portraits of women sell for more than modern art portraits of men. Citing Jeremiah Everts, Sotheby’s head of Impressionist and Modern Art, the ...

A painting dated back to the 1940s by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7 million at a New York art auction, shattering female artist auction records. The self-portrait titled El sueño (la ...

Ever felt tired of putting up with something that just feels plain wrong? Noticing that the august halls of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) were hung with portraits celebrating similarly august men, ...