Where are the women in the UK’s public art installations? Let’s take a look at the politics of sculptural commissions plus a top ten of...
Candy Bedworth 11 November 2024
We’re all Angelicamad here! To celebrate the history painter extraordinaire Angelica Kauffman, let’s discuss her take on one of antiquity’s...
Gabrielle Stecher 11 November 2024
Swedish artist Hanna Hirsch-Pauli (1864-1940) is best known for her genre scenes and portraits. She studied at the painting school of August...
Europeana 11 November 2024
Mary Beale is a rarity: a prolific, well-documented, successful, 17th-century woman artist. Her painting of Young Bacchus perfectly illustrates how...
Catriona Miller 10 November 2024
Self-Portrait by Faith Ringgold is a masterpiece of 1960s portraiture, feminist art, and Black...
James W Singer, 3 November 2024
Ania Kaczynska 19 October 2024
American painter Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942) cannot be neatly pigeonholed into any artistic category. Rather, she sits at a curious intersection...
Natalia Iacobelli 17 October 2024
Dorothea Tanning (1910-2012) was a visionary whose work transcended the conventional boundaries of Surrealism and abstraction. In this “top...
Errika Gerakiti 11 October 2024
Leonor Fini didn’t agree with André Breton about the role of women in art: the father of Surrealism saw women solely as muses inspiring male...
Magda Michalska 11 October 2024
Renowned for her groundbreaking achievements, Homai Vyarawalla (1913-2012) left an indelible mark as a trailblazer in the field of photojournalism.
Nikolina Konjevod 9 October 2024
Woman with Stylus is an ancient Roman fresco unearthed in Pompeii nearly two millennia after the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE. Various details...
Natalia Iacobelli 7 October 2024
The ten artworks featured give an overview of the vast Korean art world. These items span from the early Joseon period to the present and take...
Seoyoung (Alyssa) Kim 7 October 2024
