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A Portrait Artist Fit for a King (but Not a President)

Jonathan Yeo, about to unveil a major new painting of King Charles III, also counts Hollywood royalty (Nicole Kidman) and…

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Renaissance Portraits That Played Hide and Seek

Portraits go undercover in the new Metropolitan Museum show “Hidden Faces,” about the practice of concealing artworks behind sliding panels…

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Now, Black Figures Have a Name, a Frame and a Show

A vital American Folk Art Museum show reckons with centuries of erasure by uncovering historical records of the unnamed Black…

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Sumptuous Attire Shines in John Singer Sargent’s Portraits from the Gilded Age

At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the painter’s subjects and friends, à la mode, could have emerged from the…

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