
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.

The exhibition California Video at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles demonstrated how video artists expand the boundaries of portraiture.

As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.

Marian Anderson’s glorious voice thrust her into stardom, and a more reluctant role as American civil rights pioneer.

Krysia Kitch reviews black chronicles at the National Portrait Gallery, London.