Since time immemorial, humans have used art, skills, and creativity to send out messages. From the early caveman who drew a boar and running humans to indicate danger, to the modern, contemporary ...

A current exhibit at Dartmouth College’s Hood Museum of Art, titled “About Face: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art,” isn’t just a collection of artists’ self-portraits. It’s also a portrait of the ...

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 ...

In mid-January 1889, three weeks after mutilating his ear, Van Gogh painted two astonishing self-portraits, depicting himself with a prominent bandage, covering his mutilated ear. The famous one is in ...