NewsMuseum acquisitions
Nevada Museum of Art acquires Judy Chicago’s full 'fireworks' archive
The museum aims to rewrite the legacy of the historically male-dominated Land Art movement
Podcast
Dora Maar and Jann Haworth: acclaim at last
We take a tour of the Dora Maar show at London's Tate Modern, where the artist is finally getting her due, and talk to US artist Jann Haworth about her retrospective at Pallant House Gallery. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793
PreviewExhibitions
She persisted: DC’s National Portrait Gallery looks at the history of the women’s vote
One of the longest reform movements in American history, which continues to be an issue today, is explored in the show
NewsFeminist art history
Women are written into online art history at expanded Wikipedia edit-a-thons across Southern California
The group Art+Feminism has organised events at six museums to boost the online presence of women artists and cultural leaders
NewsPodcast
Gender reassignment: how dealers tried to attribute female Old Master paintings as work by men
On The Art Newspaper podcast, we find out about the scandalous faking of signatures helped keep a female painter out of the spotlight
Podcast
Sisters are painting it for themselves: meet the female Old Masters finding prominence at last
We speak to curators Letizia Treves and Jordana Pomeroy about the growing trend to bring historical female artists to the fore. Plus, Kate MacGarry tells us about participating in Condo London. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
PreviewExhibitions
Feminisms, gender, resistance: three curators choose their favourite works from politically charged show
Group exhibition at UK's Nottingham Contemporary looks at activist movements across the world from the late 19th century to the present day
NewsPodcast
Surreal ideas about sex: how Dorothea Tanning and Leonor Fini resisted being pigeonholed by their gender
On The Art Newspaper podcast this week, we explore the life and work of two women connected to Surrealism whose work had until recently been overlooked
FeatureFrieze London 2018
Social Work: eight dissenting female artists feature in Frieze London’s new section
Work that challenged male-dominated art world of the 1980s and 1990s on show as UK marks centenary of women's suffrage
NewsExhibitions
Feminist photographer Anne Brigman rediscovered in Nevada Art Museum show
The artist, once championed by Alfred Stieglitz, fell into obscurity after her death in 1950
NewsSocial history
Argentina's female art workers call for gender parity on International Women's Day
The group, Nosotras Proponemos, has events planned at art institutions throughout the country during March
NewsExhibitions
London museum to replace 300-year-old collection of male portraits with women
Foundling Museum launches £20,000 crowdfunding campaign for show that marks centenary of women’s right to vote in the UK
NewsObituaries
Linda Nochlin: the American art historian who first pointed the finger at institutional barriers as the explanation for the absence of great female artists from the canon
She changed forever the way people thought about the mythology of artistic genius, and the masterpiece theatre version of art history
NewsObituaries
Pioneering feminist art historian Linda Nochlin dies aged 86
Her essay, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, changed the course of art history
ArchiveArt Basel in Miami Beach
Women artists dominate Art Basel Miami Beach’s new “Survey” section
The new section explores art from the 60s and 70s
ArchiveFilms
Art on the big screen: Documenting feminism and how women changed the (art) world
Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film is an invaluable historical record of the feminist art movement in the US
ArchiveFord Madox Brown
Books: A portrait of Ford Madox Brown through his four 'loves'
A study of the women who had the greatest impact on the life and work of Ford Madox Brown
ArchiveBooks
The production of works for garth and home
This study tries to prove that there was an aesthetic specific to cloistered women
ArchiveExhibitions
Nancy Spero's War series on display at Galerie Lelong
The artistic equivalent of standing in front of a tank
ArchiveTracey Emin
Tracey Emin: 'I think it’s in my head' at Lehman Maupin and Gloria, another look at Feminist art in the 1970s
White Columns
ArchiveBooks
Books: Essays on sex, gender and identity in Dada
Naomi Sawelson-Gorse edits this collection on the often overlooked women of Dada