In the coming robot world takeover, the art world won’t be spared. There are already plenty of signs of intelligent machines encroaching on the roles of human artists. Take Google Deep Dream’s ...

This George Washington portrait by Gilbert Stuart, commissioned by James Madison, has a colorful history. Now Christie’s in ...

"Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money," the institute explained The Courtauld/Facebook Historians recently made an unexpected discovery while examining one ...

A copy of the George Washington portrait that appears on the dollar bill is heading to auction next month—where it stands to ...

His blonde hair already parted far to the side, a 20-year-old Andy Warhol thrusts a finger up his protuberant nostril, revealing the wrangling of defiance and precarity that imbued his tangled ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

When a broken leg rendered Eva Lu Damianos mostly immobile in June, a whole team of nurses, aides and therapists assembled to ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II Cover Images via AP Images A painting by a famed Austrian artist became the ...

Portrait painting becomes far more manageable when the face is treated as a solid structure rather than a collection of ...

When Amy Sherald was selected to paint the official portrait of Michelle Obama eight years ago, many people in the art world didn't know who she was. They do now. At 52, Sherald has become one of ...

Baumgartner is based in Chicago and runs what is now the oldest restoration studio in the city. Using archival and reversible ...

Three years after Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the paintings have arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the ...