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 ...

The theme of Portraits of Women is violence against women and girls. The exhibition includes two components: Congo/Women: Portraits of War and Women on the Frontline. Congo/Women: Portraits of War ...

An exhibition at a Swiss museum asks visitors to consider how female artists view their portrait subjects. By Nina Siegal Is there such a thing as a “female gaze?” For years, there’s been a debate ...

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London announced last week that it had added five self-portraits by female artists, including its first self-portrait of a Black woman, to its collections. The ...

Hamida Ouali pointed at a painting of herself wearing a green dress that is traditional among the Amazigh, the North African ethnic group to which she belongs, and made a decision. "I like it," she ...

Homosociality and erotics in Italian Renaissance portraiture / Patricia Simons -- The ideology of feminine 'virtue' : the vestal virgin in French eighteenth-century allegorical portraiture / Kathleen ...

It’s arguably the most famous painting in the world, and it’s shrouded in mystery. Most notably, the identity of the woman pictured in Leonardo da Vinci’s painting known as the Mona Lisa isn’t ...

In a society obsessed with youth and physical beauty, women of a certain age vanish from the zeitgeist just when they have the most to offer as fonts of institutional knowledge, cultural history and ...

King's College London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. At one point in the new movie Portraits of Dangerous Women, young woman Ashley (Yasmin Monet Prince) is talking to gallery ...

Eight months ago, Danyel Rogers was focused on surviving. Diagnosed with terminal metastatic breast cancer, she was told by doctors her illness would ultimately take her life. But the Hillsboro-based ...