The Kunstmuseum Basel has reaffirmed the authenticity of what is believed to be Paul Gauguin’s final self-portrait, Portrait de l’artiste par lui-même (1903), following months of forensic research, ...

The Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France publishes articles and information concerning French literature from the 15th century to the present day. It seeks to provide original and objective ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

Explore the extensive selection of painting, sculpture, film and photography exhibited as part of SHOWstudio's exhibition, SHADOW-BAN, together with a collaboration with the Tom of Finland Foundation.

In other words, this is life uninflected, sans emphasis or order – though not without form. Both Levé’s and Ball’s texts are serialist memoirs, proceeding via largely disconnected, declarative ...

122 x 177 cm. (48 x 69.7 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

I am tempted to write this review as a progression of first-person sentences, strung together as a single paragraph. Certainly it would be appropriate, not only to Jesse Ball’s idiosyncratic ...

A young Jesse Ball discovers a dead dog. Its owner is a classmate who has never deigned to speak to him, but still Ball helps her and her mom put the body in a plastic bag. “Neither of them thanked me ...

The Painter (Self-portrait at Work), oil on canvas, 1946. Gilot painted the self-portrait while she and Picasso were staying in Antibes, on the French Riviera. Françoise Gilot, 2021 Françoise Gilot ...

Why do artists create self portraits? For the French-Cameroonian photographer Samuel Fosso it goes beyond documenting what he looked like at a given time; self-portraiture is a means of self ...

Who are you, and what are you doing here? You, there in the mirror, there in the lens of your phone: What do you see? In the eyes of us poor moderns, it seems self-evident that a picture can capture ...