Arthur Turner delivers critiques in his advanced watercolor class as carefully as he might dress or undress a baby. "Valentina," he says, staring at the abstract self-portrait tacked on a white board ...

After Victorine Meurent posed for Manet’s ‘Olympia,’ she took art classes and painted this fascinating self-portrait To begin with, it’s one of fewer than half a dozen paintings attributed with any ...

Let’s start with one of art history’s great quotations, attributed to René Magritte: “A face isn’t a face unless it’s facing you.” I’ll get back to you on that, but first, a brief foray into Bosnian ...