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New exhibit at Speed Art Museum explores women who shaped abstract expressionism

A new exhibit at the Speed Art Museum is shining a spotlight on the women who helped shape one of America's most influential ...
Artnet

The Newly Renovated National Museum of Women in the Arts in D.C. Is Ready to Shake Up the Canon

If the newly renovated National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., feels something like hallowed ground, that could be due in part to the building’s history: Built in 1908, it ...
Forbes

Black Women In Art And Black Writing In Art On View At Kansas Museums

Imagine popular music without Black women. Since Motown in the 1960s, turning on a radio anywhere in American meant the likelihood of hearing a Black woman’s voice. And they were the biggest stars, ...
Artnet

How to Make the Art Industry More Equitable for Women

In partnership with the Association of Women in the Arts, Artnet presents a series of stories amplifying the voices of women shaping the fine-arts sector. Through candid conversations, industry ...
Yale Insights

What Keeps Women Artists Out of the Art World’s Top Echelon?

Women remain underrepresented at the highest levels of the art world. We talked to Yale SOM’s Magnus Resch about his new ...
Forbes

From The Ground Up: Women Artists Of Land Art

Groundswell: Women of Land Art is a milestone exhibition that just opened at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, and that reassesses and reasserts the importance of a coterie of women in the ...
Barron's

Women Artists Are Gaining Ground in the Market—Shattering Price Records and Estimates. But Challenges Remain

Two significant paintings by Joan Mitchell created decades apart sold in consecutive weeks at auctions last month in New York, each smashing the previous US$16.6 million record for the abstract ...
Observer

The Women Who Built the Hamptons Art Scene

Once Lee Krasner (and Pollock) settled there, Abstract Expressionism had two addresses—downtown Manhattan and out East.
Hyperallergic

How Black Women Ceramicists Shaped Art History

William Alfred Ismay, "Photograph of Ladi Kwali at a pottery demonstration in England" (c. 1970s), photograph (color) (courtesy York Museum Trust. The W.A. Ismay ...
JSTOR Daily

Thinking Women and Art in the Long Eighteenth Century: Strategic Reinterpretations

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. Introduction: Mary D. Sheriff: Charting New Possibilities for Feminist Art ...
The Conversation

Influencers of a bygone era: How late Victorian women artists mastered the art of networking

In our age of digital influencers, it could be easy to believe that building a professional network is a modern phenomenon. However, long before the dawn of social media, women artists in late ...
The New Yorker

What Happens When the Art Monster Is a Woman?

Last month, a pair of climate activists attacked a painting known as “The Rokeby Venus,” by the Spanish master Diego Velázquez, which hangs in London’s National Gallery, using hammers to smash the ...