Books
The Patrons Who Sustained Sophie Taeuber-Arp
The letters between Taeuber-Arp and her patroness, Annie Müller-Widmann, show the usually invisible tending that goes into an artist-patron relationship.
Karen Chernick
Books
Edith Schloss and Her Feminine Take on New York’s Macho Art Scene
Schloss challenged the concept of the lone genius toiling in his studio, instead framing this cohort of artists as neighbors and friends.
Art
How Marisol, “the True Trailblazer,” Paved the Way for Andy Warhol
In 1962, Andy Warhol desperately wanted to be like his accomplished new pal, Marisol.
Books
A History of Motherhood Through Design
Designing Motherhood includes over 100 objects spanning medical devices to depictions of laboring women in films.
Art
The Bite-Sized Art of Chewing Gum
Hannah Wilke is part of an elastic history of bubble gum-as-art that started before her and continues to this day.
Art
Why Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s 1783 Portrait of a Mother Nursing Broke New Ground
When Labille-Guiard exhibited the portrait at the Paris Salon, it was the only woman in the series. And she was breastfeeding.
Art
How Does Plastic Age? Conservators Are Taking a Closer Look
A new project is researching how Soviet-era plastics were made and used.
News
How Lee Miller Cast Her Surrealist Eye on British Vogue
Miller didn’t plan to photograph gowns and handbags as bombs rained from London’s skies.
Books
100 Women Street Photographers Freeze the Exquisitely Mundane
A new book compiles unstaged public photographs by 100 artists of all ages, hailing from 31 countries spanning Ghana to Iran.
Art
With a Room of Her Own, Emily Mason’s Ethereal Abstractions Bloomed
Mason’s expansive Chelsea studio became her tuning fork — the barometer she used to check that colors and shapes were humming at the right frequency.
Interview
Audrey Flack on the Gaps in Art History
The veteran photorealist painter talks to Hyperallergic about her work and her new film biography, Queen of Hearts.
Art
The Remarkable Success Story of Rosalba Carriera, the Original “Queen of Pastel”
Partly thanks to Carriera’s skill and clever marketing, pastel portraits became one of the most popular art forms of the Rococo era.