Women in art
Behind the curtain: new book sparks debate about how women gallerists promoted avant-garde art
This important study analyses how female dealers from 1940 to 1990 worked to advance artists but questions on gender go unanswered
Simone Leigh reprises Venice Biennale success for US touring show
The homecoming tour for the artist’s presentation in Venice last year begins at the ICA Boston
Here she comes: 'Problematic' femme fatale trope gets feminist reappraisal in Hamburg exhibition
Artists from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Nan Goldin are brought together at the Hamburger Kunsthalle to re-examine the stereotype’s origins and new takes
Do UK museums ignore violence against women?
Despite the availability of work by high-profile artists, leading institutions are reticent about confronting a pressing issue
Artists take to Instagram to criticise Gilbert & George’s claims that museums are now ‘woke’ and only focus on Black and women artists
Candice Breitz, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Ghada Amer and Athi-Patra Ruga all spoke out against the duo on social media
Modern women rediscovered: Frieze Masters focuses on female artists
The Spotlight section of the fair is showing 26 solo booths of 20th-century women artists who have been too-long forgotten in art history
America's racial reckoning: inside the controversial Guston show
Plus, London's new Queer Britain museum and a rediscovered work by Caterina Angela Pierozzi
This digital archive brings women art dealers back into the story of Modern art
The Women Art Dealers Digital Archives explores the role of historical women gallerists as powerful forces in once-niche markets that have since become major sectors of the art world
Voluptuous Venus figurines may have helped prehistoric Europeans survive the Ice Age
The objects were passed on as “ideological tools” that created advantageous body ideals for women, researchers argue
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
Images of female sexuality abound at Frieze New York as artists find new ways to challenge perceptions
Women doing it for (and to) themselves
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
Women through men’s eyes in Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne
Picasso, Beckmann, De Kooning and the female form
“He enabled me to know myself better”: Interview with Giacometti's last surviving muse, Paola Carola
One of the sculptor's models reflects upon his enduring influence and how he changed her life
The many faces of medieval women on view in Bilbao
Elegant, humorous, erotic—and liberated
Swedish expert claims more women in positions of influence will lead to better arts funding
Pernilla Warberg says female bosses prefer culture to football
In Madrid,“Goya: images of women” shows current academic preoccupations while in Washington it will be more conventional
Double duty Goya: the travelling show adapts to its contexts
From Russia with art: meeting London's newest gallerists
Are these women the real deal?
The Art of Domestic Life: This well-argued study considers the changing status of women in family portraits
'That’s no lady, that’s my wife…'
Not enough women in the Swedish national collection, says director
Lars Nittve has asked the Swedish government for $6.8m to spend on female artists
Venice Biennale gets two women curators
Appointment of Maria Corral and Rosa Martinez announced
Women curators appointed for the first time ever, to be followed by an American in 2007
Less circus, more focus at the Venice Biennale
Whistler, women and fashion at the Frick Collection
On view from 22 April to 13 July
Travelling survey places Goya's images of women in their context
The National Gallery of Art
Painted ladies: women at the court of Charles II, 1660-85
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Gardening and art at the National Portrait Gallery
Women’s studies blended with the media biography and botanical illustration