Notwithstanding the suggestion of the title, Vanessa Severo’s self-penned solo show at Writers Theatre about the iconic 20th century Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is not so much a self-portrait of ...

Disability is the central theme of a new exhibition of paintings by the artist Lucy Jones, who creates brash, brightly ...

We humans have been gazing at our reflections for eternity. Fascinated by our own visage we have sought to preserve it in sculpture, painting, photography, video. Our portraits are as individual as ...

[MUSIC PLAYING] One of the most touching artworks, to me, is a self-portrait by Rembrandt. It was painted around 1628. Rembrandt painted many— maybe hundreds, even— of self-portraits.

Gustave Courbet, Self-Portrait: The Desperate Man, 1841, oil on canvas; Artephot, Paris: photo Nimatallah (page 241) Including oneself in a line-up of impressive figures is a convenient way to ...