Women Artists
Sotheby’s launches first auction dedicated to women artists—but why do we still need a segregated sale in 2021?
Online sale will span the 17th to the 21st centuries featuring artists including Dorothea Tanning, Hannah Höch and Barbara Hepworth
Extract | The day Anthony van Dyck received ‘wise advice from the words of a blind woman’—the 17th-century artist Sofonisba Anguissola
New book by Jennifer Higgie gives astute insights into brilliant women artists shut out of art history
No great women artists? How Linda Nochlin tore apart the art historical narrative 50 years ago
The feminist writer’s renowned essay ‘Why have there been no great women artists?’ challenged the myth of male genius and called for a new way of thinking
Foundation that championed women’s art in Florence will close down after restoring 70 works by artists including Artemisia Gentileschi
The philanthropic organisation Advancing Women Artists will halt conservation projects due to lack of funds
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
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
Campaign launched to enshrine Corita Kent’s former Los Angeles studio as a historical landmark
The studio where the “nun-turned-artist” produced colourful, conscious works in the 1960s could be demolished
Met adds Clara Peeters still-life to its petit bouquet of works by early women painters
The Flemish painter was at the top of the museum’s wish list and helps fill a large gender gap in the collection
Museum devoted to Palestinian art to celebrate international women's day with exhibition
The show features more than 200 works by women artists such as Samia Halaby and Laila Shawa
Park Avenue Armory to commission 100 women artists for centennial of 19th amendment
Partner institutions across the city will help select artists to commemorate milestone anniversary of womens’ right to vote
Here come the 'angels of anarchy': Surrealist women to steal the shows in 2020
Exhibitions in UK, Europe and US speak to growing public appetite for scholarship on the women of art history
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
Female artists outperform men when their work returns to auction, report finds
A data study by Sotheby's Mei Moses reveals a 73% increase for work by women in repeat sales, while men lagged at 8%
Let us now praise famous women : Museums finally find their feminine side
A wave of exhibitions of influential female artists begins this month on both sides of the Atlantic
Women artists dominate Art Basel Miami Beach’s new “Survey” section
The new section explores art from the 60s and 70s
Little movement—and no women on top—for Artindex France
Anri Sala tops the list for the second time
Images of female sexuality abound at Frieze New York as artists find new ways to challenge perceptions
Women doing it for (and to) themselves
Cheim & Read’s year of women artists
Exhibitions included artists Joan Mitchell, Jenny Holzer and more
Women artists are doing it for themselves at Frieze Masters
The London fair features a raft of women, including Judy Chicago, who are eschewing assembly-line art
Women artists lead the way in Brazil
Unlike their Western counterparts, female Brazilian artists are at the forefront of the market
It’s a man’s (art) world—or is it?
Only around 25% of the dealers at Art Basel are female, but women are giving no quarter as the playing field begins to level out
Surrealist women artists follow Alice’s footsteps in new exhibition
Female surrealists are having their day in the sun at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma)
An interview with Anahita Razmi, winner of the Frieze Art Fair's Emdash Award '11
How a 12-screen video installation on show at Frieze was filmed despite Iran’s strict regime
Robert Adanto's documentary "Pearls on the Ocean Floor" throws spotlight on Iran's revolutionary female artists
The women who go against the grain, featured at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
Art on the big screen: Documenting feminism and how women changed the (art) world
Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film is an invaluable historical record of the feminist art movement in the US
Where are the women of Art Basel?
High priced male artists such as Warhol and Picasso dominate the stands
Where are the women at Art Basel?
High priced male artists such as Warhol and Picasso dominate the stands
Books: Impressionist women and Impressionists’ women
New works on a quartet of women painters and the wives and models of three of the men