![DEl Kathryn Barton [Australian b. 1972] the more than human love , 2025 Acrylic on French linen 78 3/4 x 137 3/4 inches 200 x 350 cm Framed dimensions: 79 7/8 x 139 inches 203 x 353 cm](/sites/default/files/styles/category_card_187x139/public/ab15211bartonthe-more-human-lovelg.jpg?itok=LJbNuU6F)
Most kids have the opportunity to experiment with creative outlets, whether it be coloring, finger-paints, or macaroni art. Extraordinary talent is not expected, however, in some rare cases innate…
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Problems of gender inequity have plagued academia since its inception with women being discouraged or outright barred from learning and practicing different …
With the opening of the exhibition, Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe: 1400-1800, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, featuring the work of groundbreaking women artists across four…
For the past two years, the Smithsonian has been working to gather support from donors on a proposed American Women’s History Museum. Last week, the Smithsonian…
The bustle was a fashion accessory in …
Long overlooked, the sisters—Anna, Elisabeth (Lies), and Willemien (Wil)—are now the subjects of a book, The Van Gogh Sisters by Van Gogh scholar Willem-Jan Verlinden.
The exhibition highlights the popularity of the cartes de visite in American society of the early 1860s and how becoming a carte de visite meant being famous, or at least, worthy of collection. Women…
A global phenomenon, the New Woman was a symbol of female empowerment based on real women making revolutionary changes in life and art. Meet eight pathbreaking women photographers,…
This self-portrait, exhibited in Paris in 1895, came with a caption from an unnamed male art critic noting that “this woman” often had critics assume the work had been painted by a man, because no…
In the U.S. Capitol, amidst the statues of controversial politicians and military figures that protestors stormed past in January, stand several statues of quiet American heroes and heroines who are…
One of the greatest chroniclers of twentieth-century America, Alice Neel was born in a small town near Philadelphia in 1900, but made her mark as a “painter of people,” as she humbly called herself,…
An initiative to feature a selection of women on U.S. quarters has so far approved two barrier-breaking Americans: Sally Ride and Maya Angelou.
This exhibition was intended to be on view at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) during the Spring of 2020. Upon the Museum’s reopening to the public, we will present the exhibition in the…
A Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition slated for 2022—Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women—will showcase a diverse set of incredible fiber artists.
In New York City's Central Park, a monument has been unveiled honoring women's suffrage pioneers Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
![Ginevra de’ Benci [obverse]. 1474/1478. Leonardo da Vinci. Oil on Panel. Ailsa Mellon Brue Fund, National Gallery of Art.](/sites/default/files/styles/image_5_column/public/ginevradebenciobverse196761a.jpg?itok=hIzdUTaK)