Just as a photograph captures a moment for eternity, self portraits act as a diary of hidden fears, joys and other fervent emotions. Artists have long used self portraits as a form of emotional releas...
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Stephen Colbert was denied when he tried to run for president this year in South Carolina. Now the fake TV pundit is getting some love from the city of his birth.His portrait was hung Wednesday at ...
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The National Archives and Records Administration wants the portrait of President Clinton now hanging at the State Capitol returned, but a brewing fight to keep it has united a Democrat and Republic...
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A rare portrait by Renaissance master Raphael that shows a Florentine ruler from the famed Medici family will be offered at a public auction this summer, Christie's said Monday.Christie's expects t...
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The recently retired director of the National Museum of the American Indian spent $48,500 in museum funds to commission a portrait of himself and selected a non-Indian artist to create it, a newspa...
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A Carson City barber and amateur painter, miffed that an out-of-state artist was chosen to paint Gov. Kenny Guinn's official portrait, has taken his scorn on a 50-state road show.
When Ada...
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A museum in the Netherlands said the portrait was not by Rembrandt, and the provincial auction house in England was only advertising it as a work by one of his followers — valued at $3,078.Bu...
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A haunting portrait of a slave girl painted by the wife of Gen. Robert E. Lee at her family's Virginia plantation in 1830 is being sold to Colonial Williamsburg for its museum collection, a New Yor...
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Our motorcycle is headed for an impossibly narrow crack between two diesel-spewing buses, and to my untrained eyes we're not going to make it.But moments later we have emerged on the other side uns...
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I WAS 17 WHEN my sexual education began. “You are responsible for your own orgasm,” my boyfriend told me. He was the guy I lost my virginity to, the guy I had my first orgasm with, and ...
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Thomas Jefferson University has sold a second Thomas Eakins painting, this time to the Wal-Mart heiress who earlier expressed interest in acquiring another of the artist's masterpieces.Eakins' 1874...
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Self Portraits
Colbert portrait hangs at Smithsonian
