NewsAntiquities & Archaeology
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
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
ArchiveWomen Artists
Images of female sexuality abound at Frieze New York as artists find new ways to challenge perceptions
Women doing it for (and to) themselves
ArchiveWomen Artists
Women artists lead the way in Brazil
Unlike their Western counterparts, female Brazilian artists are at the forefront of the market
ArchiveArt Basel
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
ArchiveWomen in art
Women through men’s eyes in Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne
Picasso, Beckmann, De Kooning and the female form
ArchiveWomen in art
Fewer women lead museum boards in Norway
Museum mergers have cut numbers
ArchiveAlberto Giacometti
“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
ArchiveExhibitions
The many faces of medieval women on view in Bilbao
Elegant, humorous, erotic—and liberated
ArchiveSweden
Swedish expert claims more women in positions of influence will lead to better arts funding
Pernilla Warberg says female bosses prefer culture to football
ArchiveMadrid
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
ArchiveFrieze
From Russia with art: meeting London's newest gallerists
Are these women the real deal?
ArchiveBooks
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…'
ArchiveStockholm
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
ArchiveFilms
ABMB hosts film on nine top female gallerists
Dishing the dirt on NY’s women dealers
ArchiveVenice Biennale
Women curators appointed for the first time ever, to be followed by an American in 2007
Less circus, more focus at the Venice Biennale
ArchiveVenice Biennale
Venice Biennale gets two women curators
Appointment of Maria Corral and Rosa Martinez announced
ArchiveJames McNeill Whistler
Whistler, women and fashion at the Frick Collection
On view from 22 April to 13 July
ArchiveFrancisco Goya
Travelling survey places Goya's images of women in their context
The National Gallery of Art
ArchiveExhibitions
Painted ladies: women at the court of Charles II, 1660-85
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
ArchiveByzantium
"Women in purple: rulers of medieval Byzantium"
A review of Judith Herrin's new book
ArchiveExhibitions
Gardening and art at the National Portrait Gallery
Women’s studies blended with the media biography and botanical illustration
ArchiveWomen Artists
Two books look at women in the art world and conclude from entirely different approaches that, even after thirty years, the struggle remains the same
"Women and art: Contested territory" and "Great women collectors"
ArchiveSurrealism
How Surrealism has shaped the self-portraits of three generations of women artists
Women and Surrealism at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
ArchiveIran
The Brooklyn Museum's landmark show of Qajar art exposes Iran’s more liberal roots
The first survey of a fashion for portraiture that swept the Persian court lifts the veil on Iranian history
ArchiveGuerrilla Girls
Guerrilla Girls: Rewriting art history from the distaff side
“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met?” and other pointers on the good, the bad and the ugly of women in art
ArchiveRenaissance
Books: Looking at women in Paola Tinagli's "Women in Italian Renaissance art"
No great women artists? But they star in all the pictures
ArchiveExhibitions
Womens’ rights campaigner, Mme Sadat, supports an Egyptian show with a pc twist
"Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven” is at the Brooklyn Museum 20 October - 5 January 1997