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Interest in Early Modern Women Artists Continues to Grow

For a coterie of early modern women artists spanning the 15th to 18th centuries, the past decade has marked a whirlwind of rediscovery. Unlike many contemporary women artists who have experienced ...
Artnet

Her Intricate Paper Cuttings Outsold Rembrandts. Who Was the Dutch Master Known as ‘Scissors Minerva’?

Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, and Cosimo de Medici were among her admirers. Poets compared her art to Michelangelo’s. Seventeenth-century Dutch textile and paper cutting artist Joanna Koerten was ...
The New York Times

The Dutch Masters Were Women, Too

Remedying years of oversight, the National Museum of Women in the Arts is trying to make female painters from the Low Country household names in America. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam The ...
Artnet

How Have Women Been Represented in Modern Art? A New Exhibition Shines a Light on the Thorny Topic

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 ...
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Women in Contemporary Art – Celebrating Female Visionaries

Women in Contemporary Art – Celebrating Female Visionaries brings together a focused selection of works by Yayoi Kusama, Marina Abramović, Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Eva ...