Hyperallergic

Before the Selfie, the Self-Portrait

The selfie is a smartphone-produced version of the self-portrait, which has been a staple of art and photography history since artists first began seeing examining their own images in the mirror. In ...
Artnet

Art Bites: Alice Neel Painted Her First Self-Portrait at 80

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...
Hyperallergic

Brenda Goodman's Fearless Self-Portraits

Brenda Goodman, "Self-Portrait 4" (1994), oil on panel, 64 x 60 inches (all images © Brenda Goodman, courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York) Brenda Goodman has ...
Artnet

To Celebrate Albrecht Dürer’s 550th Birthday, Here Are 3 Fascinating Facts to Change the Way You See His Legendary Self-Portrait

“Whatever was mortal in Albrecht Dürer lies beneath this mound,” reads the epitaph on Northern Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer’s grave. The elegy’s suggestion of his superhuman status is not without ...
Forbes

Rare Basquiat And Warhol Double-Portraits Serendipitously Appear At Phillips, Expected To Fetch Up To A Combined $21 Million

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT SELF-PORTRAIT acrylic, oil, oilstick and paper collage on wood, triptych 36 3/8 x 71 7/8 in. (92.4 x 182.6 cm) Executed in 1983. In art world serendipity, rare double self ...
Nashville Scene

Bryce McCloud's visionary public art project elevates the selfie to a citywide self-portrait

How do you get an entire city to make an artistic statement about the way it sees itself? One that doesn't weigh celebrity over average citizens, or technical proficiency over untrained visions and ...