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The cunning way spiders create self-portraits art to trick their predators

Spider webs aren't only functional, they are a work of beauty, with some spiders going that extra step, adding an unexpected ...
Artnet

Ernst Kirchner’s First-Ever Self-Portrait—and the First to Come to Auction in Decades—Could Sell for Nearly $15 Million

The work is thought to have been inspired by Van Gogh's famous self-portrait with a straw hat and pipe. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Self-portrait with a pipe (1907). Photo courtesy of Sotheby's. Jo ...
The Daily Star

Before the selfie age: Daddy’s self-portraits

More than a hundred years on, these two self-portraits stand as some of the earliest examples of Bengali portrait photography ...
Hyperallergic

Painting for Oneself: On Peter Heinemann’s Self-Portraits

Peter Heinemann, “Head 1987” (1987) (all images courtesy National Academy of Design) Forty years passed between my first hearing about Peter Heinemann’s self-portraits and my actually getting a chance ...
Observer

A Rare Jean-Michel Basquiat Self-Portrait Could Fetch $60M at Auction

Despite the prevalence of self-referential and autobiographical elements in his art, Jean-Michel Basquiat rarely identified his paintings as explicit representations of himself. Now, one of the artist ...