Barbara Nessim (b. 1939, Bronx, NY) is an artist recognised as a pioneer in early computer art. She was among the first to explore the creative potential of computers and extensively used them as an artistic tool at the dawn of the computer age in the early 1980s....
Barbara Nessim mounts her first retrospective exhibition in the US after her well received show in London, at the V&A (Victoria and Albert museum), in 2013. A constant innovator for more than four decades, Barbara was one of the first illustrators to utilise the...
Barbara Nessim, the highly influential Bronx-born artist and illustrator was in London last night for the launch of an exhibition of her work at the V&A. The display is made up of 100 objects, many works on paper, which represent a significant body of output,...
The internationally renowned American artist and illustrator, Barbara Nessim has donated a collection representing some of her most significant artworks to the V&A in London.Nessim’s distinctive line and style have graced the cover of nearly every major...
When Artlyst first started its Alt Power 100 Artlyst fifteen years ago, we were aiming at an audience fed up with the gratuitous love fest that other Power 100 lists produced. This list rewarded the commercial while ignoring the hard work of curators, museum...
Welcome to the Alt Power 100 Artlyst 2024/2025. The Alt Power 100 Artlyst celebrates the visionaries transforming the artistic landscape and culture. This year's edition cuts through traditional hierarchies to spotlight those who wield influence in unexpected and...
Retinal Hysteria at Venus Over Manhattan 13 January - Robert Storr has curated the city's most exciting and provocative group show with over eighty works by forty artists. On the same block, both Venus spaces present art meant to ponder, disturb, and examine "a world...
The feminist art movement emerged in the 1960s with women artists taking an interest in how they differed from their male counterparts. It was most prominent in Britain, the USA and Germany and has since spread. Feminist artists pointed out that throughout recorded...
I had the privilege of viewing this year’s Whitney Biennial with Douglas Dodds, Senior Curator of Word and Image at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and artist Barbara Nessim, who had a one person show at the V&A a year ago. We went there informed by a...