Latest Art: Portrait News

Senior’s self-portrait ends her run at art show with top prize (Dayton Daily News)

ENGLEWOOD — Abby Rapp first entered the Englewood Youth Art Show when she was in sixth grade.“I think my mom has all the ribbons in a scrapbook,” she smiled. Now a senior at Miami Valley Career Technical Center, she ended her run at the annual exhibit with a “Best of Show” award for her self-portrait in colored pencil.

Clayton Weatherston portrait removed from art contest (Stuff)

A controversial portrait of killer Clayton Weatherston has been disqualified from a Wellington art contest because the artist, Liam Gerrard, did not get his permission to exhibit the work.

Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog (Arts Journal)

As I stood in the Philadelphia Museum of Art looking at Henri Matisse's perpetually fascinating Portrait of Mlle. Yvonne Landsberg , I heard someone say: "Wednesday."

National Portrait Gallery Presents First Ever Exhibition Devoted to Indian Portraits (Art Daily)

A group of courtesans, Delhi, c. 1820. © San Diego Museum of Art. LONDON.- An important exhibition telling the story of the Indian portrait over three centuries will open at the National Portrait Gallery on 11 March 2010. Bringing together 60 works from international public and private collections, The Indian Portrait 1560-1860 will celebrate the beauty, power and humanity of these works of art.

61st annual art show at Chadds Ford Elementary to feature live art demos (The Kennett Paper)

The organizers of the Chadds Ford Elementary School art show wanted to do something special for the 61st annual event.

Curators Claim "Lost" Emperor Portrait is Largest Mughal Painting Ever Seen (Art Daily)

Jahangir holding a globe, Mughal, attributed to Abu’l-Hasan, 1617. Private Collection. LONDON.- Curators of the National Portrait Gallery 's new exhibition The Indian Portrait 1560-1860 - which opens tomorrow - will reveal a six-foot, seventeenth-century life-size portrait of the Emperor Jahangir which they claim is the largest painting to come from the Mughal empire.

18 years showcasing Asian and Pacific Art (Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news)

The Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT), showing in Brisbane, Australia, is one of the most significant events on the region's art calendar. The sixth exhibition showcasing the talents of artists from countries ranging from the Pacific area through Southeast Asia to the Middle East, occupies the entire Gallery of Modern Art, as well as key spaces within the adjoining Queensland Art ...

District 209 art students awarded for creations (Proviso Herald)

Proviso High School District 209 students earned a number of ribbons and awards for their art at the 2009 High School Artists Competition at Triton College. "I have one student, Faustino Padilla, who got three yellow and one red ribbon," art teacher Emily Tonan said. Lucero Aguirre took best in show and best ceramics with her piece titled "Exhale."

Rarely seen Italian Renaissance painting will be on view at Milwaukee Art Museum (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

MILWAUKEE - Rarely lent from the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy, Raphael Sanzio's painting "The Woman with the Veil" is making its last United States' appearance likely for many years at the Milwaukee Art Museum.

'Red', a Portrait of Artist Rothko in His Prime, Begins Broadway Run (Playbill via Yahoo! News)

Red, the Donmar Warehouse production of John Logan's play about 20th-century abstract-impressionist artist Mark Rothko, starring Alfred Molina, makes its U.S. debut at Broadway's Golden Theatre starting March 11.

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