The art-collecting industrialist Henry Frick tried to commission a portrait from the famed artist, to no avail.

Kenwood exhibition shines a light on the American 'dollar princesses' who married into the English aristocracy ...

"John Singer Sargent loved people, and it shows," said Lisa Yin Zhang in Hyperallergic. Born to American parents who'd become ...

Moreover, the National Portrait Gallery only takes up half of the building and shares the space with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This museum showcases rotating exhibits, which have ...

ArtReview is pleased to announce the launch of its first foreign-language edition, available from 10 November, during Shanghai Art Week. Drawing is a fundamental component of Sir John Soane’s Museum, ...

Pop to Popism, held at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2014, was not a show that left glowing memories, but one work has remained lodged in my mind. John Olsen is one of Australia's most recognised artists ...

A chimney sweep and his colleague get deep on the roofs of Oslo in Dag Johan Haugerud’s curious meditation on marriage and masculinity. By Manohla Dargis A flinty Iranian judoka competing in the ...

With an American flag as a backdrop, a newly drafted George Hirano (left), 18, posed for a portrait with his mother ... Army Gen. John L. DeWitt, recommended that people of Japanese ancestry ...

The portrait, known as ‘the secret picture ... more than 400 items have been sourced from across the Royal Collection, including paintings, drawings, photographs, jewellery and sculpture ...

81.3 x 66.1 cm. (32 x 26 in.) ...

In 1986 Pope John Paul II visited the synagogue, marking the first visit by a pope. In addition to being a place of worship, the synagogue serves as a cultural and organisational centre for the city’s ...