These eight artists bent the rules when branding themselves. Although they worked across two centuries, all chose to adopt their mother’s family names instead of abiding by the traditional patriarchy…
women artists
Surrealism became the focus of many art institutions in 2024 in response to the 100th anniversary of the 1924 publication of Andre Breton’s (1896-1966) Surrealist…
After 90 years of questioning the fate of four frescoes by Maxine Albro (1893-1966), originally painted on the exterior walls of The Ebell of Los Angeles in 1933, the …
Pioneering fiber artist and weaver Consuelo J. Underwood is known for breaking boundaries–integrating barbed wire, caution signs, religious iconography, botanical imagery, and astronomy into…
The exhibition, Heart On, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art…
When you ask people to name their favorite artist, the same names always seem to come up. In this roundup, we shine the spotlight back on our favorite lesser-known female artists. Perhaps after…
Around 1908, Vanessa Bell began a painting that she would call Poppies and Poison. In it, she limns a tabletop in cool-toned whites, set against a…
The life of Frida Kahlo has been researched and revealed…
