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 ...

It is, of course, a self-portrait — a painting of the “ugly and plebeian face by which he was ill-favored,” as one early Rembrandt chronicler, Filippo Baldinucci, rather brutally put it.

[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 ...