The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presented the 2025 Portrait of a Nation Awards Saturday, Nov. 15, to four new honorees for their transformative contributions to American history and ...
No one expected the (one-sided) bromance that took place when New York’s Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani visited President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. on November 21. For months, the two had traded ...
A 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million at a New York art auction, becoming the top sale price for a work by any female artist. The painting of Kahlo ...
The surrealistic self-portrait was made in 1940, a turbulent year in the Mexican artist’s life as her health and marriage deteriorated. By Zachary Small and Tim F. Schneider An enigmatic self-portrait ...
The portrait is a six-foot-tall work of art by the Austrian painter, created between 1914 and 1916. It depicts Lederer, the daughter of one of Klimt’s patrons, wearing a Chinese robe. The auction saw ...
A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become the most valuable work by a female artist sold at auction after selling for $54.7 million. Kahlo’s surrealist self portrait, which was sold by ...
Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837–1898), better known as Princess Sisi, became an icon of the Habsburg Empire when, at just 16 years old, she wed her first cousin, Emperor Franz Joseph, and ...
At $236.4 million, a portrait by Gustav Klimt is the second most expensive painting sold at auction, while Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet drew $12.1 million. By Zachary Small and Julia Halperin It ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. For a moment, just a moment, it looked as if Anthony Albanese could break down in tears. On the final parliamentary sitting day of a ...
A painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust has become the most expensive piece of modern art and the second most expensive painting ever sold at auction. The ...
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,” William Shakespeare wrote in a stanza from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, going on to name check several darlings of Elizabethan gardens — oxlips, violets, ...
El sueño (La cama), which translates to "The dream (The bed)" was painted during a turbulent time in Kahlo's life A surrealist painting by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has sold for $54.7m (£41.8m) ...