• Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Sign In
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Sign In
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • Sign In
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
Skip to content
Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic

Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Membership

Bridget Quinn

Bridget Quinn is a writer, critic and art historian living in San Francisco. She’s the author of She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next, illustrated by 100 women artists, and Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order). You can find her on her websiteor follow her on twitter.

Posted inArt

Pastels Are Damned Beautiful

by Bridget Quinn January 10, 2022January 12, 2022

An exhibition spanning the 16th century to the present displays pastels in all their lush, radiating color.

Posted inArt

Joan Mitchell, a Brilliant Painter and Contrarian at Heart

by Bridget Quinn October 11, 2021October 14, 2021

If painting was Mitchell’s sickness, it was also her salvation.

Posted inArt

The Many Feminisms of Contemporary Art

by Bridget Quinn September 26, 2021September 24, 2021

After years in the making, New Time opens at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

Posted inBooks

Hilma af Klint Gets an Exquisite Seven-Volume Catalogue Raisonné

by Bridget Quinn August 25, 2021August 25, 2021

The latest volume of af Klint’s catalogue raisonné reveals the artist exploring the spiritual world with quasi-scientific deliberation.

Posted inArt

What Should We Call the Great Women Artists?

by Bridget Quinn May 22, 2021May 21, 2021

Imagine if Berthe Morisot had been known as Berthe Manet.

Posted inArt

In Knausgaard’s Essays on Art, No Thought Goes Unexamined

by Bridget Quinn February 15, 2021February 16, 2021

In the author’s latest book “In the Land of the Cyclops,” I want to see what Knausgaard sees, even when I’m overwhelmed by it or disagree.

Posted inBooks

Roni Horn’s Memories and Meditations About Weather

by Bridget Quinn December 28, 2020January 5, 2021

Prosaic and profound, Horn’s book “Island Zombie” feels like standing before art again.

Posted inBooks

Rereading Georgia O’Keeffe’s Biography in a New Light

by Bridget Quinn November 18, 2020November 18, 2020

Roxana Robinson’s biography of the artist features letters from a young O’Keeffe to a lover, which offer some unexpected art historical insights.

Posted inBooks

A Witty and Refreshingly Feminist Look at Artemisia Gentileschi

by Bridget Quinn October 7, 2020November 5, 2020

The art historian Mary Garrard’s lively account of Artemisia Gentileschi is timely in its exploration of her art which was composed of anger, accusation, and even humor.

Posted inBooks

Mary Cassatt’s Independent, Feminist Spirit

by Bridget Quinn August 17, 2020December 14, 2020

“If the world is to be saved, it will be the women who save it,” said the American Impressionist, who led a headstrong life as a woman abroad.

Posted inBooks

Alice Trumbull Mason, a Pioneer of Abstraction, Makes a Triumphant Return

by Bridget Quinn June 15, 2020November 5, 2020

Emily Mason remembers her mother saying, “I’ll be famous when I’m dead.” Though fame may not be quite secured (yet), the artist’s first-ever monograph acts as bulwark against forgetting her legacy.

Posted inArt

An Idiosyncratic Selection of California Art Presses

by Bridget Quinn February 25, 2020June 18, 2020

California has a rich history of artful book making. Here’s a small sampling of presses old and new.

Posts navigation

1 2 3 Older posts

Popular

  • Archaeologists Discover England’s Oldest Surviving Shipwreck
  • Luke Gilford’s Tender Photographs of Gay Rodeos
  • A Show Traces Philip Guston's Impact on Contemporary Artists
  • Polish Museum Implores Visitors to Stop Having Sex on Its Premises
  • Two Santa Monica Artists Create a Legacy Through Potlucks
Sponsored
  • The Newark Museum of Art Presents Jazz Greats: Classic Photographs from the Bank of America Collection
  • LGBTQ+ Art, Literature, and Historical Ephemera Up for Auction at Swann
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Home
  • Latest
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • About
  • Support Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Sign In
  • Membership
  • Newsletters
  • Submissions
  • Careers
© 2022 Hyperallergic. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy