People pictures fall into two categories: portraits and candid ... objections to photographs being made of certain individuals or groups. Some people object on religious grounds.

Around 1800, London-based published Samuel William Fores continued the playful tradition of composite portraiture in a series ...

Shan Macdonald, Curatorial assistant for Scientific Instruments selected this object from the Hunterian ... He was an experimental teacher who made ground-breaking patents in the areas of ...

Otto Dix, a painter labeled “degenerate” by the Nazis, refused to flatter his subjects — but they agreed to sit for him anyway.

The original portrait was likely to be made in Scotland ... with a collection of objects relating to the Jacobean Era The earlier portrait was painted on top of a Jacobite battle flag with ...

John Coxwell was a self made man who made his money from the wool trade in the Cotswolds and rose from the ranks of the lower middle classes to that of the gentry. In the 14th and 15th centuries ...

This is where manual labor meets the sublime. Art handlers, movers and preparators are among the few people who actually get ...

Opening on Oct. 16, the art show was a display of unconventionality, as students chose to experiment with numerous materials ...

The graying hair has been preserved in a locket that was given to a family friend of the Washingtons and passed down the ...

The Berkshires museum is getting a transformative gift: 331 artworks from the Renaissance on, worth several hundred million ...

It would be more accurate to say that America became an object of great derision and concern ... away like Noah’s flood ...

The film restores the agency of the objects at the heart of the Dahomey restitution case by transforming them into a living ...