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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.

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A Museum Guard’s Ode to the Healing Power of Art

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn 2 days agoMarch 22, 2023

In All the Beauty in the World, Patrick Bringley revisits the many ways that art meets life, and life art, and how death is often the bridge between them.

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The Art World “Darling” Who Went Rogue

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn February 12, 2023February 10, 2023

Joan Brown resented the easy commodification of her work, and the incessant demand for her to create something just so others could own it.

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Rosa Bonheur’s Animal Instinct 

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn January 4, 2023January 7, 2023

Her art demonstrates a grasp of animal nature beyond picturesque figures in a landscape or sentimental stand-ins for human emotion.

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Pastels Are Damned Beautiful

Avatar photo 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.

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Joan Mitchell, a Brilliant Painter and Contrarian at Heart

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn October 11, 2021October 14, 2021

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

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The Many Feminisms of Contemporary Art

Avatar photo 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.

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Hilma af Klint Gets an Exquisite Seven-Volume Catalogue Raisonné

Avatar photo 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.

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What Should We Call the Great Women Artists?

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn May 22, 2021May 21, 2021

Imagine if Berthe Morisot had been known as Berthe Manet.

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

Avatar photo 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.

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Roni Horn’s Memories and Meditations About Weather

Avatar photo by Bridget Quinn December 28, 2020January 5, 2021

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

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

Avatar photo 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.

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A Witty and Refreshingly Feminist Look at Artemisia Gentileschi

Avatar photo 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.

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