Brian Graham's portraits of photographer Robert Frank. Robert Frank is considered one of the greatest photographers of the last century, but the man behind the camera always remained enigmatic.

Fred Valentine, “The Pumpkin Festival” (1991), charcoal on paper, 50 x 44 inches (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) It’s an unsentimental portrait, to say the least. The unsmiling girl ...

Half a millennium ago, the Protestant rebel priest Martin Luther sent out a number of small paintings as a marital announcement with political implications. He’d commissioned German painter Lucas ...

For the past decade, Hollywood A-listers, from actors to directors to studio executives, have sought out photographer Mark Seliger to take their portraits in the elaborate pop-up studio he constructs ...

Citizenfour, Laura Poitras’s documentary about Edward Snowden, premiered to a sold-out audience at the New York Film Festival on October 10. The film was not originally part of the festival lineup, ...

A previously unknown portrait by Auguste Renoir of his toddler son sold at auction in Paris for $2 million. Painted sometime between 1890 and 1895 and gifted to a student, has never before been sold ...

Editor’s Note: Untold Art History investigates lesser-known stories in art, spotlighting unsung and pioneering artists you should know, as well as uncovering new insights into influential artworks ...