News
After Controversy, Smithsonian Names Director of Women's History Museum
Elizabeth C. Babcock will be the museum’s first director after the initial appointee, Nancy Yao, withdrew amid an investigation into allegations.
Women's Rights
News
Nancy Yao's Role at Smithsonian Stalled As Review Continues
The American Women’s History Museum is awaiting the findings of an investigation into allegations against Yao.
Art
Charting Photography’s Gender Dynamics
Close Enough: New Perspectives from 12 Women Photographers at Magnum unfolds the complex gender dynamics that women experience behind the camera.
News
Anna May Wong Becomes the First Asian American on US Currency
Regarded as Hollywood’s first Chinese American movie star, Wong faced racism and discrimination during her career.
Books
Photo Book Retells the History of Hysteria
Laura Larson’s City of Incurable Women draws from archival materials to speculate on the lives of women who were famously hospitalized for hysteria throughout history.
Books
Some Sisterhood for Any Woman Attempting to Go It Alone
Immy Humes’s The Only Woman is a deeply satisfying array of women scientists, artists, writers, medical students, politicians, and even criminals, all pictured among their fellows.
News
One Artist's Scathing Indictment of a Crooked Supreme Court
Hundreds of copies of the LA-based guerrilla poster artist Robbie Conal’s latest work, “Supreme Injustices,” were pasted up from Venice to Los Feliz.
News
One Artist's Scathing Indictment of a Crooked Supreme Court
Hundreds of copies of the LA-based guerrilla poster artist Robbie Conal’s latest work, “Supreme Injustices,” were pasted up from Venice to Los Feliz.
Art
Let's Make Noise for Abortion Rights
On the day of the Supreme Court’s decision to undo 50 years of constitutional rights to abortion, artist Elana Mann's “protest rattles” feel especially poignant and urgent.
News
In Mexico City, Art Collective Paints Names of Femicide Victims on Streets
The names, painted on International Women's Day, were scrubbed away around 24 hours later.
In Brief
National Archives Apologizes for Altering a Photograph of the 2017 Women's March
The museum will remove an edited version of a photograph of the 2017 Women's March that blurred protest placards and replace it with the original, unaltered image.
News
In Mexico City, Widespread Protests About Women's Rights Target a Monument and Museum
Dozens of breastfeeding mothers gathered at Mexico City's Museum of Modern Art in protest of discriminatory regulations, while the Angel of Independence monument was vandalized with feminist graffiti and crocheted hearts.