NewsFemale artists
Sexism by numbers: Guerrilla Girls ask UK public to send in statistics of females nudes vs female artists at local museums
Feminist protest groups' Male Graze project is part of the contemporary art festival Art Night
PreviewExhibitions
Say my name, say my name: huge exhibition aims to put Australian women artists on the map
The show at Canberra's National Gallery of Australia spans the past 120 years and includes works by Nora Heysen, Tracey Moffatt and the Tjanpi Desert Weavers
NewsControversies
Madrid's Prado museum accused of misogyny in open letter after misattributing work to female artist
Uninvited Guests exhibition has "been done from a misogynistic point of view and still projects the misogyny of the 19th century,” says one signatory
NewsArt fairs
No boys allowed: this year’s Chart art fair will only exhibit women artists
Event across five Nordic cities tackles issue of male-dominated art world head on
NewsAuctions
Sotheby’s offers major works by 20th century female artists in $50m Ginny Williams Collection sale
Coinciding with the auction house's New York sale room re-opening in June, the sale marks the first time female artists will comprise over two-thirds of the value of an evening auction
PreviewExhibitions
Sculptor Gego closes Brazil museum’s year of women artists
São Paulo survey at Masp shows work by one of the leading figures of the 1950s kinetic and geometric abstraction movement
Podcast
Dora Maar and Jann Haworth: acclaim at last
We take a tour of the Dora Maar show at London's Tate Modern, where the artist is finally getting her due, and talk to US artist Jann Haworth about her retrospective at Pallant House Gallery. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793
NewsConservation & Preservation
Renaissance woman Plautilla Nelli's Last Supper unveiled after restoration in Florence
Seven-metre painting offers "canvas proof" that self-taught nun ran an all-female workshop in her convent 450 years ago
NewsCensorship
Feminist exhibition in China suddenly axed following alleged governmental pressure
Show in Shanghai cancelled after being deemed "too sensitive" to run during 70th anniversary of country's founding
NewsRenaissance
Science provides first deep dive into overlooked female Old Master Lavinia Fontana's work
After a grant enabled conservation on a much-loved painting, researchers at the National Gallery of Ireland are learning more about the artist’s technique
NewsMiddle East
Forgotten female artists of Modern Arab art to get their due in Sharjah show
Collector Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is organising an exhibition with an equal number of male and female masters to redress gender bias
NewsMuseums
Baltimore Museum of Art dedicates a year of exhibitions to women
From Georgia O’Keeffe to Mickalene Thomas, museum will aim to address diversity gaps
FeatureArt Basel 2019
Bringing up baby: making motherhood work in the art world
Being a mother has been cast as career suicide by Tracey Emin and Marina Abramovic. We speak to four women in the art world who beg to differ
NewsArt market
Gender parity in commercial galleries lags behind public sector in UK, report finds
Opinion that female artists make poorer investments has a lasting impact on the legacy of women, according to the research from Freelands Foundation
NewsFrieze New York 2019
JAM, the historic gallery supporting contemporary African American artists, gets another bite of the cherry
MoMA will hold a museum exhibition dedicated to JAM in 2022
NewsArt Basel in Hong Kong 2019
Fair share: parity for Asia’s female artists gains ground at Art Basel in Hong Kong
While men still dominate the local market, there are signs of progress towards equality in Hong Kong this week
NewsArt market
Galleries are focusing on female artists to tackle the industry's gender divide
Dealers are attempting to redress the balance as report shows that women continue to be underrepresented
NewsAcquisitions
Kimbell Art Museum fêtes International Women's Day with Anne Vallayer-Coster acquisition
Still Life With Mackerel demonstrates the French 18th-century artist's virtuosity in the genre
NewsArt market
Sotheby's puts female artists first in contemporary sale, but men still end up on top
Jenny Saville's Juncture sells for £5.4m and records set for Rebecca Warren and Nigerian artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, but Jean-Michel Basquiat still leads prices
NewsThree to see
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend
From female artists who made their mark on New York to designs for cities of the future
NewsArt market
Gallery representation dwindles for 'established' female artists, new research finds
But while dead men dominate the market in the UK and US, it is women who top auction prices for African art
NewsPodcast
Gender reassignment: how dealers tried to attribute female Old Master paintings as work by men
On The Art Newspaper podcast, we find out about the scandalous faking of signatures helped keep a female painter out of the spotlight
Podcast
Sisters are painting it for themselves: meet the female Old Masters finding prominence at last
We speak to curators Letizia Treves and Jordana Pomeroy about the growing trend to bring historical female artists to the fore. Plus, Kate MacGarry tells us about participating in Condo London. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
PreviewExhibitions
Female artists emerge from shadow cast by Berlin Wall
Exhibition at Dresden's Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau reveals how women in the Eastern Bloc were often more radical than the men
PreviewExhibitions
Feminisms, gender, resistance: three curators choose their favourite works from politically charged show
Group exhibition at UK's Nottingham Contemporary looks at activist movements across the world from the late 19th century to the present day
NewsPodcast
Surreal ideas about sex: how Dorothea Tanning and Leonor Fini resisted being pigeonholed by their gender
On The Art Newspaper podcast this week, we explore the life and work of two women connected to Surrealism whose work had until recently been overlooked
FeatureFrieze London 2018
Social Work: eight dissenting female artists feature in Frieze London’s new section
Work that challenged male-dominated art world of the 1980s and 1990s on show as UK marks centenary of women's suffrage
NewsArt market
Sticking the knife into the patriarchy: Artemisia Gentileschi painting to be sold for the first time in Vienna
The female Italian Baroque artist's depiction of Lucretia is thought to have been in European collection since the 19th century
NewsFeminism
Women in the arts in Argentina condemn vote against the legalisation of abortion
Despite their disappointment, they remain optimistic
NewsCensorship
Facebook censors artist's work criticising male-dominated society because it features naked breasts
The social media giant also deleted her comments and friends
NewsSocial issues
US Planned Parenthood campaign includes artists Shirin Neshat and Carrie Mae Weems
The Unstoppable initiative includes an online exhibition of works by ten female artists and writers
NewsDiscoveries
Newly discovered Michaelina Wautier painting added to first major show on Baroque’s forgotten female master
And experts are convinced that “many more works will pop up”
InterviewFrieze New York
Frieze Artist Award winner Kapwani Kiwanga takes on colonialism
Imposing open-air work made of African farming fabric opens at New York fair this week
NewsArt market
Object lessons: a psychedelic cabinet from Gaetano Pesce and more
Our pick of highlights from upcoming auctions
BlogIn the frame
Women wanted: massive UK parade to honour the suffragettes
NewsExhibitions
London museum to replace 300-year-old collection of male portraits with women
Foundling Museum launches £20,000 crowdfunding campaign for show that marks centenary of women’s right to vote in the UK
NewsArt market
Female artists really do earn less than men, survey finds
According to a new report, works by female artists are rated lower by wealthy men, contributing to a 50% pay gap at auction
NewsObituaries
Pioneering feminist art historian Linda Nochlin dies aged 86
Her essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, changed the course of art history
InterviewFrieze 2017
Katharina Grosse: What would our mothers say?
The German painter celebrates the work of other female artists in her first London institutional show
NewsFrieze 2017
Strong early sales at Frieze pierce the Brexit gloom
Dealers feel little impact as female artists prove popular and US collectors return
FeatureFrieze 2017
Let's talk about sex at Frieze
A special section at the fair looks at the “radical feminists” who were once ostracised by their peers
NewsNottingham Contemporary
Freelands Award championing female artists goes to Lis Rhodes at Nottingham Contemporary
Second edition of philanthropist Elisabeth Murdoch's £100,000 prize for regional UK museums will support 2019 exhibition
ArchiveTracey Emin
Artist Interview: Tracey Emin's Miami
The artist speaks briefly of her favourite Miami activities
ArchiveFrieze
Spotlight: an alternative canon of 20th-century art or savvy sales strategy?
Frieze Masters both embraces and challenges the idea of 'masters'
ArchiveExhibitions
Bourgeois’ baton taken up by Tracey Emin at Hauser & Wirth
Pieces created in collaboration by the artists are on sale now
ArchiveMexico
Murdered Mexican women remembered in portrait show
Artists such as Tracey Emin, Paula Rego and Maggi Hambling have produced campaigning images
ArchiveBarbara Kruger
Kruger's lifetime achievement award a little less luminous
Disappointment taints her upcoming Golden Lion award
ArchiveTracey Emin
Arts in broadcasting and television: Is controversy old hat?
Tracey Emin’s new film aroused much excitement in the papers because of scenes of rape and suicide, but not much on screen
ArchiveArtist interview
Is it a bird? A plane? No, just a G-string: Interview with artist E.V. Day
E.V. Day on thongs, Stealth Bombers and why her latest work stretches elasticity to its limit
ArchiveTracey Emin
Tracey Emin follows up book buzz with a retrospective down under, but will the Aussies approve?
The Art Gallery of New South Wales plays host to her new show
ArchiveFrida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo: Toted as the female Van Gogh, Kahlo draws the crowds
As “Frida” hits the screens, the cult painter’s art–and spin-offs–are in high demand
ArchiveTracey Emin
Tracey Emin: 'I think it’s in my head' at Lehman Maupin and Gloria, another look at Feminist art in the 1970s
White Columns
ArchiveFemale artists
Art in the media: The personality eclipses art in programmes on Lee Miller and Tracey Emin
Miller and Emin on ITV1’s South Bank Show, plus architecture of the future on Channel 5
ArchiveBridget Riley
Bridget Riley makes waves at new Tate Britain retrospective
Riley was heavily involved in the curation of this exhibition alongside Paul Moorhouse
ArchivePhotography
“Private dreams and unknowable pleasures” in early photography
Clementina, Lady Hawarden, a forgotten precursor of Julia Margaret Cameron, is the subject of this book and of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition
ArchiveTracey Emin
Tracey Emin makes a show of herself in Camberwell
The South London Gallery exhibits a range of the artist's work from the avian to the erotic