Ego: The Strange and Wonderful World of Self-Portraits

Laura Cumming takes a journey through more than 500 years of self-portraits and finds out how the greatest names in western art transformed themselves into their own masterpieces.

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Documenta 1955

2016

Le Messager

Le Messager

2016

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

2013

Takeda

Takeda

2017

Deborah Stratman to Nancy Holt: For the Time Being

Deborah Stratman to Nancy Holt: For the Time Being

2021

A Bad Name

A Bad Name

2024

Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada

Beatrice Wood: Mama of Dada

1994

The Macondian Hollywood

The Macondian Hollywood

2023

Re-enactment

Re-enactment

2000

Revolution: New Art for a New World

Revolution: New Art for a New World

2017

Bloed

Bloed

2011

Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius

Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of a Genius

1981

Nova the Film

Nova the Film

2011

Utopia Ltd.

2011

Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

2014

L'art fait du bien 2

L'art fait du bien 2

2016

Hokusai Up Close: Paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art

2023

Revive the Lira's Glory

Revive the Lira's Glory

Fall 2

Fall 2

1970

I'm Too Sad to Tell You

I'm Too Sad to Tell You

1971