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The Feminist History Of Women Artists Taking Nudes In Nature
From Francesca Woodman, to Carolee Schneemann and Judy Chicago, Mother Nature was a powerful force for liberation
“FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology” converging in Taos
Sharing ground-breaking work and research in Bio-Art
Portraits of Resistance by Iranian Women Photographers
A new Thames & Hudson book compiles work by 23 female photographers recording the past and present upheavals of their homeland.
At the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Female Artists From The Islamic World Hunt For Metaphors In Being And Belonging
Her sculptures include a pair of shoes with stiletto heels made entirely of shiny steel razor blades. Her video installation Home features an interview with Anonya, a hijra – the umbrella term in South Asia for a trans woman – describing her childhood, the centrality of her dance career to her transition and the prejudice she suffers in Dhaka.
‘We’ve Been Fighting the Death Hold Wealthy People Have on Art’: Watch the Guerrilla Girls Reflect on Their Radical Origin Story
As part of a collaboration with Art21, hear news-making artists describe their inspirations in their own words.
9 Overlooked Women Artists in Their Nineties
While the art market sees consistent demand for work by young men and old ladies, these same older women artists are routinely neglected by institutions. When they are recognized, this celebration of their work is often overdue. By ignoring older women’s contributions, wider audiences often miss out on mature practices like that of Bourgeois. While questions of gender parity in relation to age are more frequently discussed in relation to Hollywood actresses, they are also valid for the art world, where a greater platform for these older artists is desperately needed.
‘It’s Inherently Political’: Looking Back Upon A History Of Women At Work
At a new exhibition, around 50 objects are pulled together to tell a story of women working from various backgrounds carrying out a spectrum of jobs
Camera ready: How Agnès Varda Turned Her Photographs Into Film
Before she picked up a film camera, the revered director was a photographer. The seeds of her groundbreaking cinema lie in her earliest still images, says her daughter, Rosalie
Female forward: National Portrait Gallery announces women-led partnership with Magnum Photos
Seven portraits of British women by female Magnum photographers will enter the permanent collection of London's newly reopened gallery as it attempts to balance a historic gender disparity
Joan Brown Retrospective Places the Enthrallingly Personal Painter in the Pantheon
Paint wielded by Joan Brown seems to have been purpose-built and mission-driven, especially when that mission involved dressing down painting’s most grandiloquent sense of self-regard and putting it to pointed and playful personal use. Many of the works in Brown’s feet-on-the-ground, head-in-the-clouds retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art could have been made as gifts for family and friends—or, better yet, as intimate painterly diary entries to be seen and appreciated by no one aside from the artist herself. Where some painters in her 1960s-’80s milieu aspired to change the world, Brown bent the tools of her trade toward chronicling the world she was in a constant state of building and rebuilding around her.
What If Women Ruled the World?
Pussy Riot founder and feminist Icon Judy Chicago team up on book tour.
Increasingly, Women Are Running the World’s Great Museums
From the Louvre to the Vatican Museums and the National Gallery of Art, female directors are taking over from men.
Curator’s Choice: Women and Nonbinary Artists Subvert the Politics of Portraiture
Curator’s Choice is a new monthly guest curator series featuring collections of artworks and essays by rising and leading voices in the arts, or in culture more broadly. The featured artworks are all available on Artsy.
Ms Marvel, Hijabs and Harems: Female Photographers from the Islamic world – in Pictures
A new exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art features works by female artists making statements about the political and social changes shaping the lives of women in some of the world’s most restrictive societies
A Newly Rediscovered Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Comes to Auction—Along With Work by Three Other Women Old Masters
The auction also includes works by Fede Galizia, Orsola Maddalena Caccia, and Diana De Rosa.
The Femme Fatale: A Quintessential Symbolist Motif
The femme fatale is a character archetype that has long haunted our cultural imagination. Fascination with the femme fatale peaked around the fin de siècle, as evidenced by symbolist artworks.
The Nipple Has Not Been Freed! The Art World Must Continue To Fight Meta Over Gender Discrimination
Social media giant has been taken to task for its notorious “female nipple” guideline, but the battle for creatives' freedom of expression is not yet over
Future is Female: Rosy Petri
OnMilwaukee's The Future Is Female series is brought to you by Alverno College and features some of the most interesting, innovative and intelligent women in the city. Meet artist and activist Rosy Petri.
Karen Robinovitz Runs an Empire Out of Her Art-Filled, Eclectic Brooklyn Apartment
Co-founder of the Sloomoo Institute, the businesswoman is also a Brooklyn Museum board member and a dedicated chronicler of her “art exploration" on Instagram, where she documents gallery trips to PPOW and Venus Over Manhattan, and studio visits with the likes of Ana Benaroya and Natalie Frank. A commitment to youthful playfulness is vital to the collector, as is uplifting female-identifying artists, both of which run through her ever-evolving collection of works by emerging and mid-career artists.
Women Artists of the Seventeenth Century: Renaissance and Baroque
As Renaissance humanism opened up individual opportunities for education, growth, and achievement, a few women transcended gender role expectations. Some of these women learned to paint in their fathers' workshops and others were noble women whose advantages in life included the ability to learn and practice the arts.