FeatureBook Club
Extract | The day Anthony van Dyck received ‘wise advice from the words of a blind woman’—the 17th-century artist Sofonisba Anguissola
New book by Jennifer Higgie gives astute insights into brilliant women artists shut out of art history
FeatureBook Club
No great women artists? How Linda Nochlin tore apart the art historical narrative 50 years ago
The feminist writer’s renowned essay ‘Why have there been no great women artists?’ challenged the myth of male genius and called for a new way of thinking
NewsConservation & Preservation
Foundation that championed women’s art in Florence will close down after restoring 70 works by artists including Artemisia Gentileschi
The philanthropic organisation Advancing Women Artists will halt conservation projects due to lack of funds
PreviewExhibitions
Say my name, say my name: huge exhibition aims to put Australian women artists on the map
The show at Canberra's National Gallery of Australia spans the past 120 years and includes works by Nora Heysen, Tracey Moffatt and the Tjanpi Desert Weavers
NewsControversies
Madrid's Prado museum accused of misogyny in open letter after misattributing work to female artist
Uninvited Guests exhibition has "been done from a misogynistic point of view and still projects the misogyny of the 19th century,” says one signatory
NewsWomen Artists
Campaign launched to enshrine Corita Kent’s former Los Angeles studio as a historical landmark
The studio where the “nun-turned-artist” produced colourful, conscious works in the 1960s could be demolished
NewsAcquisitions
Met adds Clara Peeters still-life to its petit bouquet of works by early women painters
The Flemish painter was at the top of the museum’s wish list and helps fill a large gender gap in the collection
PreviewWomen Artists
Museum devoted to Palestinian art to celebrate international women's day with exhibition
The show features more than 200 works by women artists such as Samia Halaby and Laila Shawa
NewsPark Avenue Armory
Park Avenue Armory to commission 100 women artists for centennial of 19th amendment
Partner institutions across the city will help select artists to commemorate milestone anniversary of womens’ right to vote
NewsExhibitions
Here come the 'angels of anarchy': Surrealist women to steal the shows in 2020
Exhibitions in UK, Europe and US speak to growing public appetite for scholarship on the women of art history
PreviewExhibitions
Sculptor Gego closes Brazil museum’s year of women artists
São Paulo survey at Masp shows work by one of the leading figures of the 1950s kinetic and geometric abstraction movement
NewsArt market
Female artists outperform men when their work returns to auction, report finds
A data study by Sotheby's Mei Moses reveals a 73% increase for work by women in repeat sales, while male artists lagged at 8%
ArchiveWomen Artists
Let us now praise famous women : Museums finally find their feminine side
A wave of exhibitions of influential female artists begins this month on both sides of the Atlantic
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
ArchiveWomen Artists
Images of female sexuality abound at Frieze New York as artists find new ways to challenge perceptions
Women doing it for (and to) themselves
ArchiveChristie's
Paintings by women, paintings of women
Record sales for women artists at Christie's
ArchiveWomen Artists
Little movement—and no women on top—for Artindex France
Anri Sala tops the list for the second time
ArchiveWomen Artists
Cheim & Read’s year of women artists
Exhibitions included artists Joan Mitchell, Jenny Holzer and more
ArchiveFrieze
Women artists are doing it for themselves at Frieze Masters
The London fair features a raft of women, including Judy Chicago, who are eschewing assembly-line art
ArchiveWomen Artists
Women artists lead the way in Brazil
Unlike their Western counterparts, female Brazilian artists are at the forefront of the market
ArchiveArt Basel
It’s a man’s (art) world—or is it?
Only around 25% of the dealers at Art Basel are female, but women are giving no quarter as the playing field begins to level out
ArchiveSurrealism
Surrealist women artists follow Alice’s footsteps in new exhibition
Female surrealists are having their day in the sun at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma)
ArchiveIran
An interview with Anahita Razmi, winner of the Frieze Art Fair's Emdash Award '11
How a 12-screen video installation on show at Frieze was filmed despite Iran’s strict regime
ArchiveMexico City
Mexico’s female focus
Fair devotes section to emerging women artists
ArchiveArt market
Auction guarantees are dividing the art trade
Insurance for sellers or market manipulation?
ArchiveIran
Robert Adanto's documentary "Pearls on the Ocean Floor" throws spotlight on Iran's revolutionary female artists
The women who go against the grain, featured at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
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
ArchiveArt Basel
Where are the women at Art Basel?
High priced male artists such as Warhol and Picasso dominate the stands
ArchiveArt Basel
Where are the women of Art Basel?
High priced male artists such as Warhol and Picasso dominate the stands
ArchiveImpressionism
Books: Impressionist women and Impressionists’ women
New works on a quartet of women painters and the wives and models of three of the men
Archivediversity
Feminist art cracks the market’s glass ceiling
Historical trends of male art selling for more are being challenged
ArchiveWomen Artists
Exchange scheme for Emirati women artists
Sheikha Manal Al Maktoum launched the program yesterday
ArchiveWomen Artists
New York’s women on film
Chiara Clemente's "Our City Dreams" at Art Basel
ArchiveModerna Museet
Government gives Stockholm museum $750,000 to buy art by women
Following gifts by private donors
ArchiveLee Miller
Former V&A photography curator Mark Haworth-Booth shines a spotlight on the photographer Lee Miller
Will he be rescued from obscurity?
ArchiveTate
Tate to buy more work by women
The gender imbalance within the Tate's holdings is to be redressed, following in the footsteps of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm
ArchiveStockholm
Stockholm museum gets more money for women’s art
Lena and Per Josefsson donate SEK3M
ArchiveBooks
The new Dictionary of National Biography is much more comprehensive than the Victorian original it replaces
More artists, more women, more sex
ArchiveContemporary Photography
Women by women in photography
Commercial photography in New York City
ArchiveWomen Artists
Jane Evelyn Atwood's new book 'Too much time: women in prison' reviewed
“People often ask how I could pursue such a ‘sad’ subject for so long”
ArchiveExhibitions
“Overcoming all obstacles: Women of the Académie Julian”
Exhibition shows at Dixon Gallery, Memphis, 9 July-24 September
ArchiveWomen Artists
Two books look at women in the art world and conclude from entirely different approaches that, even after thirty years, the struggle remains the same
"Women and art: Contested territory" and "Great women collectors"
ArchiveAcadémie Julian
The first museum show devoted to the Académie Julian
This provided women artists with vital instruction in life-drawing
ArchiveArtist interview
The body under scrutiny: Interview with Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith responds to recent attacks on her work by Met director Philippe de Montebello
ArchiveBooks
Books: Essays on sex, gender and identity in Dada
Naomi Sawelson-Gorse edits this collection on the often overlooked women of Dada
ArchiveWomen Artists
Film installation by Shirin Neshat at Wren church one of many satellite exhibitions to celebrate new Bankside building
On view at St Mary-le-Bow, City of London, until 19 December
ArchiveWomen Artists
Shirin Neshat explores gender and difference in St Mary-le-Bow
As part of the build-up to the opening in 2000 of its new Bankside building, the Tate is organising exhibitions in nearby parts of London - a film installation by this Iranian-born artist in a Wren church gives a taste of things to come
ArchiveExhibitions
“Mirror images: women, Surrealism and self-representation” now on at Miami Art Museum
Confounding the male gaze until 29 November
ArchiveWomen Artists
Women artists provide alternative view at the Whitechapel
“Inside the visible” is on show until 8 December
ArchiveBooks
A look at the best of new art books
Books on non-Western art, women artists, and from the new art history