(Bloomberg) -- A Gustav Klimt portrait of a young Viennese woman set a record auction price for the artist Tuesday when it fetched $236.4 million at Sotheby’s in New York. The portrait also became the ...

NEW YORK — A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt sold for $236.4 million in New York City on Tuesday, making it the second most expensive piece ever sold at auction and the priciest in the modern ...

The central question of portraiture is how to best turn its subjects inside out — how to best manipulate an inanimate medium so as to capture an animate sitter with a hidden history of invisible ...

Bethany Johs is taking her expertise out of the studio and into event spaces, elevating the traditional photo booth experience by offering a guided, high-end portrait experience inspired by the Vanity ...

This collection will consist of three series of materials: biographical material, transcripts of interviews with the pilots and negatives and photographs. The contact sheets were added on March 26, ...

She’s the first woman, and the first Canadian, to present a solo exhibit of her work at the Library of Congress, and two of her paintings can be found at Washington’s National Portrait Gallery. You’d ...

On the canvases of Gustav Klimt, the society painter to Vienna's powerful Jewish elite at the turn of the last century, the women's eyes burn with intensity, their dresses change from Victorian to ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian society Brigit Katz | Correspondent Works like Tissot's The Convalescent (1872), ...

Discover some of the best London art shows this summer season including Yoshitomo Nara at Hayward Gallery, Emily Kam Kngwarray at Tate Modern, Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery, and the ...