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.