Auras: Portraits Of Women By British Artists
An exhibition exploring connections and divergences between two generations of British figurative painters through their portrayals of women.
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Nan Goldin Harassed By Sackler PI – Olafur Eliasson Climate Change Initiative – Sotheby’s First Women-Only Artists Sale
Nan Goldin Harassed By Sackler PI – Olafur Eliasson Climate Change Initiative – Sotheby’s First Women- Only Artists Sale
22 April 2021
Artists Siblings Visionaries – Judith Mackrell Reframes The John Siblings
Judith Mackrell’s latest book is an insight into two of the greatest British painters of the Edwardian period. Artists, Siblings,… Read More
14 May 2025
Peggy Guggenheim: Iconic Exhibition by 31 Women Reimagined In Lisbon
In 1943, Peggy Guggenheim, the pioneering collector and art dealer, made history by mounting the first exhibition of women artists in the US…..
18 March 2025
Venice Biennale 2024 – From Inside A Women’s Prison – Pavilion Of The Holy See – James Payne
The most coveted ticket at this year’s Venice Biennale was entry to the Giudecca women’s prison on an island in the lagoon, which dates back to the 13th century and was once a reformatory for prostitutes and unwed mothers.
1 May 2024
Foreigners Everywhere: Venice Biennale Announces Artists For 2024 Edition
The Venice Biennale is one of the art world’s most significant recurring exhibitions. Now in its 60th edition, titled ‘Foreigners… Read More
1 February 2024
Women In Revolt Tate Britain – A Brilliantly Curated Archive – Sue Hubbard
Brilliantly curated and one of the largest shows mounted by Tate Britain, Women in Revolt is a complete archive of the period.
16 November 2023
Women in Revolt! Hidden Narratives Of Feminist Art At Tate Britain
In a groundbreaking exhibition opening this week (8 November), Tate Britain will spotlight the trailblazing work of over 100 women… Read More
6 November 2023
Eve Arnold: To Know About Women Newlands House gallery – Lee Sharrock
Newlands House Gallery in Petworth, West Sussex, is the unlikely venue of the UK’s first Eve Arnold retrospective in a decade.
20 July 2023
Tracey Emin Creates Every Women Bronze Doors For NPG Relaunch
Forty-five portraits that “represent every woman” cover the three doors that now form the entrance to the National Portrait Gallery.
20 June 2023
Should Great Artists Be Cancelled For Bad Or Inappropriate Behaviour
Should an artist’s behaviour and beliefs be considered separate from their art? This complex and controversial issue has been debated in the art world for many years.
10 May 2023
Hilma Af Klint and Piet Mondrian Two Groundbreaking Artists Tate Modern
Tate Modern’s Spring exhibition is an exploration of two groundbreaking modern artists – Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian.
18 April 2023
Dominique White Wins 9th Max Mara Art Prize For Women
Max Mara, Whitechapel Gallery and Collezione Maramotti have announced Dominique White (b. 1993) as the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women.
28 March 2023
Black Artists From The American South Royal Academy – Rev Jonathan Evens
The ethos of art, art by everyone for everyone with anything, is what drives black artists from the American South.
23 March 2023
The Power of She: A Tribute to Women in the Arts: Bowman Sculpture and Guerin Projects
The Power of She: A tribute to Women in the Arts is a ground-breaking curatorial initiative from a duo of accomplished women curators: Marie-Claudine Llamas and Mica Bowman
14 March 2023
Contemporary Artists In The Spotlight 2023 – Nico Kos-Earle
For this rolling feature Nico Kos-Earle has chosen 15 international artists working in various mediums to look out for in 2023.
23 January 2023
Art Basel Group Cancels London’s Masterpiece Fair – Louvre To Limit Daily Visitors to 30,000 – Mary Cassatt Biopic To Premiere On International Women’s Day
Art Basel Group Cancels London’s Masterpiece Fair – Louvre To Limit Daily Visitors to 30,000 – Mary Cassatt Bio-Pic To Premiere On International Women’s Day
9 January 2023
Women Making Modernism A Revisionist History – Royal Academy – Sue Hubbard
The title ‘Making Modernism’ implies that the artists included in this Royal Academy exhibition were at the forefront of the avant-garde. That they were an essential component in breaking the boundaries of 19th-century academic art for new freedoms. They would probably be very surprised to find themselves seen thus. It has taken more than a century for their importance to be re-evaluated and appreciated. Why? Because they were women.
16 November 2022
Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2022– 2024 Short List Announced
The Whitechapel Gallery, Collezione Maramotti and Max Mara have announced the five shortlisted artists for the ninth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women,2022
23 October 2022
South Korean Artists Sang Woon Nam And Ji Young Hong Exhibit At J/M Gallery London
Curator Rokhee Hwang is presenting the first of 2 exhibitions of contemporary South Korean artists at J/M Gallery in London’s Notting Hill.
26 July 2022
Harmony Hammond: Women In Abstraction Guggenheim Bilbao – Artlyst Interview
Artist/activist Harmony Hammond was born in Chicago in 1944 and is associated with the feminist art movement in New York during the 1970s.
2 December 2021
Women in Abstraction / Alice Neel People Come First – Guggenheim Bilbao – Paul Carter Robinson
Two exceptional touring exhibitions have converged at the Guggenheim Bilbao, one from the Centre Pompidou titled ‘Women in Abstraction’. The other is a retrospective exhibition of the New York figurative painter Alice Neel titled, ‘People Comer First’.
26 October 2021
Modern British Artists At The Beach Hastings Contemporary – Jude Cowan Montague
Jude Cowan Montague explores Seaside Modern: Art and Life on the Beach at Hastings Contemporary.
3 June 2021
Grayson Perry’s Dead Wood Comment – Donald Trump’s Political Obituary – Taylor Wessing All Women Shortlist
Has Grayson gone mad? Has Trump lost it? Is Taylor Wessing heading for an all-women final. All the news in brief
3 November 2020
Emma Talbot Wins Max Mara Art Prize for Women 2020
The Max Mara prize 2020 has been awarded to Emma Talbot. The award supports UK-based female artists who have not previously had a major solo exhibition.
10 March 2020
Fugitive Artists Display Powerful Images At Turner Contemporary
‘We Will Walk—Art and Resistance in the American South’ is one of the most powerful and important shows I’ve seen. It is co-curated by the artist Hannah Collins, who initiated the project, and curator Paul Goodwin. The exhibition traces the history of African-American artists in the Deep South during the second half of the 20th century, a time of racial terror so savage, so traumatic but yet so recent.
5 February 2020
Historical Depiction Of Women Explored In New Guildhall Exhibition
A major exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery will feature work by over 50 artists that draw upon the historical Depiction of women in enclosed and ornate spaces, including contemporary works which ‘speak back’ to the tradition.
18 December 2019
Second Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art – Artists Announced
The second Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA) has been announced. This major new biennial in Latvia lists participants for the event entitled ‘and suddenly it all blossoms’.
11 December 2019
Max Mara Art Prize for Women 8th Edition Announces Shortlist
The Whitechapel Gallery, Collezione Maramotti and Max Mara have announced the five shortlisted artists for the 8th edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women
13 October 2019
ArtBAB Presents A Powerhouse of International Galleries And Artists
Get ready for the fourth edition of Bahrain’s leading art fair, ArtBAB. The 2019 event will be presenting 16 international galleries from Buenos Aires to Kuala Lumpur.
27 February 2019
New Year’s List 2019 Honours Artists Wearing, Dean and Shonibare
The New Years Honours list 2019 has given a nod to several Visual Artists in this year’s presentation.
28 December 2018
Breeeeze: Four Artists Consider The Ambivalence Of Domestic Space – Elizabeth Fullerton
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” Virginia Woolf wrote in her famous essay on the subject, which discusses the subjugation of women in the home.
19 December 2018