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The Women Artists Commemorated on an NYC Sidewalk

The signatures of Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, and six other historical women artists are engraved on a small stretch of sidewalk on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

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High-rise heaven: The Women Who Painted New York – by Looking Out of Their Windows

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‘Blatant sexism’: why is a great painter who lived to 101 still defined by a man she left in the 1950s?

Françoise Gilot had a career that spanned eight decades and her work now fetches over $1m. Yet when this astonishing woman died last week, the headlines were more interested in her former lover

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The impact of Francoise Gilot's honesty as an artist, writer, art director and mother

French painter Francoise Gilot, who recently passed away, outgrew the shadow casted by Bluebeard and shall now be remembered for her defiant spirit and the ability to surge ahead.

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The 4 Glass Ceilings: How Women Artists Get Stiffed at Every Stage of Their Careers

Several new studies examine precisely how much worse women fare in the art market than their male peers. It's not a pretty picture.

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Remembering Althea McNish, A Forgotten Revolutionary Of British Design

A new exhibition at London’s William Morris Gallery shines a light on one of the most accomplished, yet overlooked, textile designers of the 20th century.

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Nan Goldin’s PAIN Group Takes Its Anti-Sackler Protests to Harvard’s Art Museums, Again

For a second time, on Thursday, Nan Goldin’s anti-Sackler group, PAIN, protested at the Harvard Art Museums, one of the few arts institutions in the world to still bear the Sackler family.

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What Georgia O’Keeffe Taught Yayoi Kusama

From tough love to unwavering enthusiasm, a look at some notable relationships throughout history between female artists and their protégées.

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A Dior Designer and an Artist on Finding Creative Sisterhood

When the creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri threw the brand’s support behind Zadie Xa’s work, “I understood her immediately as another cultural worker,” Xa says. “She listens in a way that lots of people in positions of power don’t.”

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The great Alice Neel: ‘I wanted to paint as a woman, but not as the oppressive, power-mad world thought a woman should paint’

In 1971, the art critic Linda Nochlin transformed the art history debate by asking: “Why have there been no great women artists?”, a question with profound implications for rethinking the gendered operations of criticism, curation, history and the art market, which conspired to define “greatness”. The notion remains a problem.

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40 Legendary Female Artists — and the Younger Women who Remind them Why they Make Art.

For this issue, we asked 33 mid- and late-career female artists and creative people (the majority of them over 45) to identify a younger female artist who inspires them.

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Two Artists Who Are ‘Coming Out of the Same River’

When they follow their creative instincts, Wangechi Mutu and Priscilla Aleman find themselves working in parallel.

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Op-Ed: Late Female Surrealist Ursula’s Fantastical Paintings Are Gaining New Recognition

In a self-portrait by the late German artist Ursula, a bulbous eye fixes the viewer with a strong glare. Confident, wry, and entirely unique, it’s a painting that manages to encapsulate this artist.