“Uninvited Guests” looks at sexism in Spain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and at the museum’s own essential role in perpetuating it.
Tag: women artists
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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.
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A Pocket Guide to Women Artists Overlooked by History
Concise, pithy, and accessible, Susie Hodge’s The Short Story of Women Artists introduces readers to artists forgotten and obscured, many of whom are now rightly being reassessed.
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Writing the Untold Stories of Polish Women Artists
Polish art historian Marika Kuźmicz has begun a project to research the biographies of overlooked female artists, locate their archives, and make the information and images available in a free online database.
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Alice Trumbull Mason, a Pioneer of Abstraction, Makes a Triumphant Return
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.
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How Hilma af Klint Was Written Out of History
The new documentary Beyond the Visible is more of a detective story than a straightforward biography, investigating the erasure of an important figure in abstract art.
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How Women Helped Revolutionize the Art of Printmaking
A new book examines the collective Atelier 17, whose members redefined beliefs about gender identity and artistic achievement in the 1940s and ’50s.
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A Novel Take on Teaching Children About Art
Women Artists A to Z encourages young readers to interact thoughtfully and inquisitively with art and artists, which is no small undertaking.
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Conserving the Art and Legacy of Spain’s First Recorded Female Artist
Once the official sculptor in the court of the last Habsburg king, Luisa Roldán is easily the most famous sculptor you’ve never heard of.
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Prize at Armory Show Will Give 10K to a Woman Artist or Her Estate
The artists shortlisted for the prize, funded by French nonprofit AWARE, are Yuko Nasaka, Rina Banerjee, Aase Texmon Rygh, Alexis Smith, and June Edmonds.
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A Podcast on Radical Women Unearths Rare Interviews With Alice Neel, Betye Saar, and More
This season of the Recording Artists podcast, hosted by Helen Molesworth, explores what it has meant to be a woman and artist through the lives of six iconic artists.
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire, a Queer Homage to the Labor of Women Artists
More than being one of the greatest lesbian romances, Céline Sciamma’s latest is a beautiful film about artistic labor and the social contexts that uplift some artists above others.