In “Hardy Women,” biographer Paula Byrne explores how women — many of them — influenced the author of “Jude the Obscure” and ...

Movies are a great escape from reality. They take us to different worlds, and provide us with a reprieve from our daily lives ...

Then, when you work up an appetite, one of the best places ... the National Portrait Gallery only takes up half of the building and shares the space with the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

The human experience is difficult to capture in words, but El Espacio 23’s exhibition, “Mirror of the Mind,” takes a solid ...

Eleven international artists, from Anna Weyant to Faith Ringgold, present their take on Dior’s classic Lady Dior bag.

When the Gibsons police discovers they have a serial killer, Karl asks for Cassandra's help. Check out the spoilers and ...

get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. Sign up In some ways, it seems "an odd exercise" to point to these paintings as portraits, said Laura Cumming in The Observer.

“I knew I wanted symbols of the women who came before ... despite how difficult portraits can be. She spent two weeks working on the portrait, painting in three-hour intervals.

Whenever someone says, “They wouldn’t make that movie today,” it begs the inevitable question, “Why?” Sometimes, the person ...

Beulah Loomis Hyde died in 1983. A first-of-its-kind retrospective is open at Cascadia Art Museum until February.

Khalida Popal showed that best in My Beautiful Sisters (John Murray, £20), which follows the resilient women’s footballers of Afghanistan ... £25), a stylish portrait of the man behind the world’s ...