"This is my office," Dean Wong told me, flopping down on the corner stool at the bar of Tai Tung restaurant, where the owner called out greetings, and where a sign on the wall proclaims it the oldest ...

On Friday afternoon, on the sunny back patio of the Hotel Americano in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, the Istanbul-based painter Taner Ceylan mused over the stakes of his second solo show at Paul ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — From her cozy studio hidden behind Rome’s famous Piazza Navona, the “official Vatican portraitist,” Natalia Tsarkova, uses her brush to capture the likeness of popes, princes and ...

Milton Rogovin, one of the great documentary photographers of the twentieth century, died at his home in Buffalo, New York, on January 18. He was 101 years old – like many an old Red, outstripping the ...

This summer’s must-visit museum exhibit reminds us that the right picture is worth well over a thousand words. “Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends,” opening Tuesday at the Met, is not a ...

In “Being and Nothingness,” Jean-Paul Sartre defines fear as the disquieting recognition that we exist as an object for another person, that we possess a self that he knows and we do not. As Sartre ...

Can’t wait to check out 'The Portraitist' at home? Here are a few more things worth knowing about the history flick. The Portraitist starring has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 52 min. Let’s ...

Sorry, Takashi Murakami isn’t going to paint your house. But if you still want to be the talk of the block and avoid the drab path that runs through Home Depot, get ...

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The Portraitist, by Steven Nadler (Chicago). Little is known about the Dutch painter Frans Hals: no letters or diaries survive, and the only contemporary documents are unrevealing. But Nadler manages ...