WASHINGTON (AP) — It seemed only fitting that Oprah Winfrey chose to wear a flowing, full-length purple dress for her portrait unveiled Wednesday at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. She ...

Surprise! Artificial intelligence-generated portraits based off artwork from 15th century Europe... kind of suck at depicting people of color. Because we're apparently always ready to hand over our ...

Fresh off Sunday’s nostalgia-heavy Oscars night, Ann Shumard, curator of the National Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition, “In Vibrant Color: Vintage Celebrity Portraits from the Harry Warnecke Studio,” ...

Open almost any newspaper this weekend, and you’ll be confronted with color pictures of the stars who dominate 2012’s cultural scene. In the 1930s and ’40s, however, most readers didn’t have the ...

A vivid display of Yevonde’s idiosyncratic oeuvre argues for her role as a photographic pioneer. A self-portrait of Yevonde with her Vivex One-Shot camera, from 1937.Credit...Yevonde, via National ...