Thinking about paintings, one usually imagines big museums filled with thousands of exhibits and tourists sympathetic to art.

Last month, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery unveiled the official portraits of Former President Barack Obama and our forever FLOTUS Michelle Obama. Aware of their place in history as the ...

With a mission centered on the promotion and reinvigoration of representational art, the Art Renewal Center (ARC) is at the forefront of the 21st-century representational art movement. Founded as a ...

The art world is a difficult place if you’re female — doubly so if you were painting portraits during the second half of the 20th Century, when abstract expressionism was in full swing and each decade ...

Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama and Amy Sherald's painting of Michelle Obama attracted record crowds to the National Portrait Gallery after they were unveiled in early 2018, a testament to ...

Mark Bergers years of work as a representational painting can be found here in this film portrait Mark Berger was an actor in the Meredith Monk company and the House from 1971 to 1974 and he uses an ...

It’s appropriate on this day, with a slight crisp in the air as the late July afternoon turns into evening, that Gary Trento discusses his upcoming retrospective at the Schweinfurth Art Center in ...

ATLANTA – A black female model leans on a stool atop a platform in a second-story studio in the city's historic arts district. She is nude, stoic and motionless. A half-dozen students have formed a ...