Nicolas Party and Rosalba Carriera The Frick Madison, 945 Madison Avenue, New York, NY Until March 3, 2024. Pastel, that vivid yet exceedingly delicate medium, is at the heart of the Frick ...

Robert Wilson’s staged video portraits invite viewers to slow down – way down – with poses held for up to seven hours by celebrities including Lady Gaga, Brad Pitt and Isabella Rossellini.

WILLIAMSTOWN — In the 1950s, Beverly Johnson Jaques would visit her “Grammy and Pop Pop” at their home in Greenwich, Conn., where a pastel drawing, "Portrait of Mrs. Cyrus J. Lawrence with her ...

By Maurice Quentin de la Tour, 1750. NEW YORK — No major artistic medium enjoyed so fast a rise into almost universal acceptance as painting in pastels, which are something of a cross between ...