When Diego Velázquez’s “Juan de Pareja” was acquired at auction by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1971 for $5.5 million, it set a new record for the amount ever paid for a painting.

portrait by Velazquez; photos (M) Article on new photographic exhibition at Prado Museum in Madrid paying tribute to hundreds of members of art protection committees who risked all to save Spain's ...

Barring the invention of a time machine, the Fayum portraits are the closest us 21st-century humans will ever get to standing face to face with people who walked this planet more than two ...

Official portraits of the late Queen Elizabeth II have been hanging in public buildings for 70 years, but what should happen to them now that King Charles III has taken the throne? That question ...

Rep. Nydia Velázquez remembers the Somos conference in its infancy. While serving as director of the Department of Puerto ...

Forecasters say a substantial winter storm will hit Santa Fe Wednesday night, potentially bringing more than 8 inches of snow.

Britain’s greatest postwar painter, Soho’s legendary boozer and gossip: the National Portrait Gallery has the perfect subject in its stirring, splendid new show Francis Bacon: Human Presence.

Hall of Fame and champion jockey John Velazquez says he is returning to his "second home." After spending the past two winters riding primarily in California, he will return to South Florida to ...

It's a treaty on painting, isn't it?” A key show dedicated to Edvard Munch’s portraits also opens next year at the NPG, featuring paintings of the 19th-century Norwegian artist’s friends ...

Ratan Tata, the beloved industrialist, passed away at 86, inspiring tributes, including a stunning diamond portrait by a Surat jeweller that went viral. Ratan Tata, the esteemed industrialist and ...

Paintings by Rubens, Titian, El Greco, Goya, Velázquez and others will go on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston on Sunday, in a blockbuster exhibition called “Portrait of Spain ...