Portrait art combines technical precision with personal expression. By learning proportion, anatomy, and lighting, and exploring both traditional and digital workflows, artists can create work that ...

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “The Spirit of Invention: Patent Office and Patentees” June 26 ...

Smartphones may have smaller sensors and lenses than DSLRs, but what the cameras in our pockets lack in hardware, they can (sometimes) make up for with software and computing power — as well as tweaks ...

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 ...

Kameron Neal Receives $25,000 and New Commission as First-Prize Winner of the National Triennial Gabrielle Obusek The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Brooklyn-based artist ...

Former U.S. President Barack Obama unveils his portrait alongside the portrait's artist, Kehinde Wiley, at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, on Feb. 12, 2018 The National ...

Alice Tate-Harte, a conservator at English Heritage, works on a 17th-century portrait of Diana Cecil. Christopher Ison / English Heritage The idea of airbrushing or filtering a selfie might seem ...

President Trump's official portrait will go on public view when the National Portrait Gallery reopens on May 14. When the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery reopens next month after a 14-month ...

A new portrait of Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, has split public opinion. Here, the royal is pictured in November 2023. A new portrait of Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, was unveiled ...