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Nani Chacon’s Urban Interventions Enter the Museum

by Maria Manuela May 12, 2022May 12, 2022

The artist says she wants to “confront people with beauty and pride and complexity.”

Posted inNews

London’s National Gallery Acquires Self-Portraits By Women Artists

by Jasmine Liu March 15, 2022March 15, 2022

The acquisitions, part of a three-year project to increase representation of women, include the gallery’s first-ever self-portrait by a Black woman.

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Show on 150 Years of Women Artists at Yale Overcomes Its Thematic Bindings

by Lakshmi Rivera Amin November 14, 2021November 16, 2021

I found myself imagining Eva Hesse, Wangechi Mutu, and Jen Davis side by side talking, and daring us to join the conversation. 

Posted inOpinion

How Women Artists Have Been Marginalized in the Blockchain Discourse

by Charlotte Kent June 13, 2021June 22, 2021

These women artists have been developing the creative possibilities within blockchain technology since the beginning.

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Prado Museum Reopens With a Hard Look at Spanish Sexism

by Lauren Moya Ford December 1, 2020December 1, 2020

“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.

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The Remarkable Success Story of Rosalba Carriera, the Original “Queen of Pastel”

by Karen Chernick October 14, 2020November 5, 2020

Partly thanks to Carriera’s skill and clever marketing, pastel portraits became one of the most popular art forms of the Rococo era.

Posted inBooks

A Pocket Guide to Women Artists Overlooked by History

by Lydia Pyne September 24, 2020November 5, 2020

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

by Karen Chernick August 24, 2020November 5, 2020

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

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.

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How Hilma af Klint Was Written Out of History

by Elizabeth Horkley June 10, 2020November 5, 2020

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

by Joanne B. Mulcahy May 1, 2020April 30, 2020

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

by Laura Relyea March 26, 2020July 16, 2020

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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