Seven artists who are expanding the possibilities of one of the most traditional forms of art-making—and reshaping the way we ...

As we enter International Black Women’s History Month, Black art has always been a means of documenting and creating history, putting out powerful stories that depict Black women’s experiences, ...

History’s great women artists have, in recent years, received glimmers of the institutional attention they’ve long deserved. While Hilma af Klint and Artemisia Gentileschi have broken through to the ...

The record-breaking result for Frida Kahlo’s surreal self-portrait El sueño (La cama) Thursday evening at Sotheby’s in New York highlights a trend gaining steam for female artists whose works are ...

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between 1600 and 1750, including Koerten, Judith Leyster and Clara Peeters Meilan ...

If still-life painting is the art of arresting decay, then it makes a lot of sense that Rachel Ruysch grew up to become one of the greatest still-life painters in the history of art. In the 17th ...

The nonagenarian artist insists that women’s bodies are interesting for more than their eroticism.

Today, 17th-century painter Michaelina Wautier earns comparisons to Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck. But for centuries, the accomplished Flemish Baroque painter had been all but forgotten. In ...

As we scroll through our social media feeds today, we’re bombarded with countless images enhanced by modern photo editing tools. But the desire to perfect one’s appearance isn’t new. In the past, ...

The website for The Reader, designed by Oliver Wise (screenshot via the Kadist Art Foundation by the author for Hyperallergic) The Reader also brings together many additional paintings of female ...

The Monuments Men and Women Foundation is on the hunt to recover stolen masterpieces—and they say this could be our best ...