The website for The Reader, designed by Oliver Wise (screenshot via the Kadist Art Foundation by the author for Hyperallergic) The Reader also brings together many additional paintings of female ...

Femme au chapeau hung at the center of a defining moment of rupture in the history of modern art, shocking audiences.

History’s great women artists have, in recent years, received glimmers of the institutional attention they’ve long deserved. While Hilma af Klint and Artemisia Gentileschi have broken through to the ...

You might have seen this painting making the rounds on TikTok. Maybe you’ve even made a video responding to it. A young woman in a Victorian wedding dress is staring down the viewer with disdain in ...

For Nieves González, the Spanish Baroque art historical legacy informs a painting practice that merges past and present.

Mary Cassatt Gave Women a Place in the Impressionist Movement Mary Cassatt reshaped the art world by elevating everyday domestic moments into beautiful Impressionist works of art. Discover how she ...

Today, 17th-century painter Michaelina Wautier earns comparisons to Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck. But for centuries, the accomplished Flemish Baroque painter had been all but forgotten. In ...

If still-life painting is the art of arresting decay, then it makes a lot of sense that Rachel Ruysch grew up to become one of the greatest still-life painters in the history of art. In the 17th ...

Paris was the epicenter of art during the latter half of the nineteenth century, luring artists from around the world with its academies, museums, salons, and galleries. Despite the city's ...

In March, an exhibition of works by Jenny Saville, the British artist known for her large-scale figurative paintings, went on display at the Albertina Museum, in Vienna. The day before the opening, ...

As we enter International Black Women’s History Month, Black art has always been a means of documenting and creating history, putting out powerful stories that depict Black women’s experiences, ...