If the newly renovated National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., feels something like hallowed ground, that could be due in part to the building’s history: Built in 1908, it ...

William Alfred Ismay, "Photograph of Ladi Kwali at a pottery demonstration in England" (c. 1970s), photograph (color) (courtesy York Museum Trust. The W.A. Ismay ...

Women in art, both as a compositional motif and as creators, is an expansive field in the history of art. Societal and cultural perceptions of women often shape their representation—from objects of ...

The highlighted photograph within Shakira Hunt's installation, "Give Me My Flowers — Soft Pedals," embodies the essence of womanhood. (Courtesy of the Delaware Art Museum) From Philly and the Pa.

“Peeking out the blue," by Bella Hernandez Lusk, is one of the many pieces by women that is on display this month at galleries throughout the Kansas City area. March is Women's History Month, and ...

This online supplement for There is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art is intended as a companion to the exhibition in the galleries at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Developed by the ...

Katy Hessel’s new survey of women artists leaves out men, but also falls short of offering a new take on feminist art history. E.H. Gombrich’s Story of Art (on which Hessel’s title riffs) was first ...

In the early 1970s, women in the UK were second-class citizens who had few rights. A woman could not buy or own a property without a male guarantor. There was no equal pay, no maternity rights nor any ...

Imagine popular music without Black women. Since Motown in the 1960s, turning on a radio anywhere in American meant the likelihood of hearing a Black woman’s voice. And they were the biggest stars, ...

A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is expected to break records when it goes up for auction in New York this week. The surrealist painting, being sold on November 20 by a private collector, ...