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, ...

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Raphael Soyer’s legacy can be found in his treatment of women. He admired them, but even more importantly, he showed them respect in both his studio and his paintings, some of which are featured in ...

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 ...

"To live by the water and to be able to be around beauty, for me, has always been a priority," said Barbara Cohen, writer and artist behind "Our Provincetown: Intimate Portraits," the newest book to ...

The best moments in Patricia Highsmith’s novels are the ones in which we see quick flashes of her protagonists’ interiority, before they reset the masks they’re inevitably presenting to the rest of ...

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Editor’s note: A version of this Q&A also appears in this year’s edition of the Summer in Aspen/Snowmass magazine. Jess T. Dugan, who teaches The Intimate Portrait class on July 24-28, is an artist ...

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