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Women Artists

A painting of a woman holding a child on her lap and washing the child's feet

One Fine Show: “Mary Cassatt, After Impressionism” at the Art Institute of Chicago

The museum's survey reframes the artist as a radical printmaker and an uncompromising figure who preferred the title independent, rejected official honors and pursued her own formal path.
By Dan Duray
A portrait of Dindga McCannon smiling on a New York street, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and a colorful garment printed with women’s faces.

Dindga McCannon Has Been Stitching Black History into the American Art Canon for 60 Years

Fridman Gallery's survey of the Harlem-born artist brings together quilts, paintings and prints from the 1970s to today, grouped by affinity rather than chronology. The works show how her blend of fabric, found objects and paint was ahead of its time and remains strikingly current.
By Elisa Carollo
A woman walks through a field of golden wheat in Lower Manhattan, with the World Trade Center towers and surrounding skyline visible in the background.

Five Artists Who Treat the Earth as Both Medium and Beneficiary

Making climate-conscious art at scale and in public is arduous, expensive and often exhausting. Agnes Denes, Mary Mattingly, Maya Lin and their peers have built substantial careers, sustain themselves through their practices and hold places in major collections, yet haven't shied away from creating works that help the planet.
By Mary Gregory
A woman seated cross-legged with an acoustic guitar in front of a large artwork depicting a figure in a green suit surrounded by flames.

Jewel’s First Major Exhibition Merges Science, Myth and Feminine Power

By Melissa Baksh
A painting of a reclining nude woman on a dark chaise lounge, with a large red flower in the foreground and an abstract interior behind her.

The Women of the Legendary 1913 Armory Show

By Mary Gregory
A Yayoi Kusama works at a table in her studio, surrounded by brightly colored canvases, polka-dot patterns and trays of paint.

Yayoi Kusama, the Avant-Garde Japanese Artist Who Became a Global Cultural Icon, Dies at 97

By Elisa Carollo
An exhibition wall displays a grid of patterned textile squares, each centered with a human skull, beneath exposed wooden ceiling beams and linear lights.

Grażyna Kulczyk Has Spent 50 Years Collecting Artists Who Were Difficult to Place

By Sarah Moroz

The Women Who Built the Hamptons Art Scene

By Mary Gregory
A painter stands in a studio surrounded by large, brightly colored abstract canvases.

50 Years of Groundbreaking Work: Kunstmuseum Basel Puts Helen Frankenthaler Front and Center

By Dian Parker
An exhibition view features a headless white sculpture of a female torso on metal supports surrounded by paintings of women in varied styles hung along a neutral gallery wall.

In Warsaw, “The Woman Question” Dismantles Art History’s Greatest Myth

By Sarah Moroz
A dramatic Baroque painting shows two women beheading a man on a bed, with strong contrasts of light and shadow.

Artemisia Gentileschi’s Revenge Is Still Radical

By Dian Parker
A marble bust of a woman in profile, showcasing detailed facial features, a textured hairstyle, and draped clothing, placed on a square pedestal against a neutral background.

One Fine Show: “Edmonia Lewis, Said in Stone” at the Peabody Essex Museum

By Dan Duray

One Fine Show: “Ann Hamilton, still and moving • the tactile image” at the Cleveland Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
An abstract painting in reds, oranges, yellows and blacks that resembles an early cave painting but stylized

“Abstract Expressionists: The Women” Adds an Essential Chapter to the Movement’s History

By Mary Gregory
An early 20th-century Expressionist village scene depicts colorful, angular houses with snow-covered rooftops under a gray sky, with a single black-clad figure walking along a winding, snowy street.

At the Guggenheim, Gabriele Münter Takes her Place

By Dian Parker
A framed painting shows hooded figures gathered around a bed-like structure with animal-human characters and symbolic objects, reflecting Carrington’s surreal staged rituals.

Curtains and Cauldrons: The Delicate Politics of Exhibiting Leonora Carrington

By Guia Cortassa
A group of Guerrilla Girls members wearing gorilla masks pose playfully together outdoors in front of a chain-link fence.

At the Getty Research Institute, the Guerrilla Girls Mark 40 Years of Calling Out the Art World

By Jordan Riefe
A Sotheby’s auctioneer raises his gavel as Frida Kahlo’s painting and a $47 million bid appear on a large screen behind him while a seated audience watches.

In Its Best Week Since 2021, Sotheby’s Hit $1.173B With a $54.7M Kahlo Finale

By Elisa Carollo
A wide view of Paula Cooper Gallery’s main room shows four large abstract oil paintings by Jay DeFeo hanging on white walls under a high wooden ceiling with exposed beams. The concrete floor reflects the muted light, emphasizing the tension between the dark, moody compositions and the open, minimal space.

Five Groundbreaking Postwar Women Artists Lead New York’s Fall Art Season

By Elisa Carollo
A performer covered in clay bends forward with sculpted clay forms attached to their back, evoking themes of transformation, burden, and creation.

‘Body Vessel Clay’ Offers a Material Portal to the Ancestral Plane

By Chenoa Baker

Reevaluating Rose Hilton

By Ruth Millington
The exterior of Sotheby’s London features a striking golden Surrealist facade with two giant sculpted eyes framing the entrance.

Karpidas’s Sotheby’s Sale Marks a New Peak for Surrealism and Design

By Elisa Carollo
A historic black-and-white image of women working on a massive sculptural relief, standing on scaffolding and platforms, applying plaster to larger-than-life female figures.

How the White Rabbits of Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition Sculpted a Lasting Legacy

By Mary Gregory
An impressionist oil painting of a woman in a blue shawl reading a newspaper by a sunlit window framed by leafy green vines.

Curator and Art Historian Camille Morineau On Finding the Women Artists of the American West

By Sarah Moroz
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