LONDON.- The winner of the BP Portrait
Award 2010
was announced at the National Portrait Gallery. In a record-breaking
year for
entries, the prestigious first prize was won by 63-year-old artist
Daphne Todd.
Her winning portrait, Last …
Daphne Todd Wins BP Portrait Award 2010 for Her Painting of Her Dead Mother
LONDON.- The winner of the BP Portrait Award 2010 was announced at the National Portrait Gallery. In a record-breaking year for entries, the prestigious first prize was won by 63-year-old artist Daphne Todd. Her winning portrait, Last Portrait of Mothe…
The Royal Ontario Museum to Host "Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008"
TORONTO.- The Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC)
at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) presents Vanity Fair Portraits:
Photographs 1913-2008 from September 26, 2009 to January 3, 2010. The
exhibition, which garnered record…
New Subjects Join the National Portrait Gallery Collection
WASHINGTON, DC.- What do Amazon-founder Jeff Bezos, Oscar-winner George Clooney, basketball star LeBron James, best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates, hip-hop entrepreneur Jay-Z and X-Games founder Tony Hawk have in common? The Smithsonian’s Nation…
Rare Photo of Slave Children Found in North Carolina Attic
RALEIGH,
NC (AP).- A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a
North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and
wearing
ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young
boy. Art
historians beli…
Rare Photo of Slave Children Found in North Carolina Attic
RALEIGH, NC (AP).- A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy. Art historians believe it’s an extre…