First published in ARTnews in 1971, Nochlin's essay is considered to be one of the first major works of feminist art history.
As my urge to sew slowly seep back into my body, I find myself looking at another type of fashions then before – namely maternety dresses through history. Even though I probably never will ge…
Her story will astonish you
In the 19th century, the Royal Academies of Art only accepted male students. This changed in 1860 with the acceptance of their first female student.
From doctors to pirates, fighters and spies, scientists and inventors, outsiders and society’s outcasts, although their stories are worthy of history books, only a few of them have made it into them.
1. How hermits live in the Russian wilderness Escape is a series about individuals who have disassociated from society and live as hermits in the wilderness of Russia and Ukraine. By Danila Tkachenko, is a Russian visual artist, specializing in the field of documentary
Kati Horna poetic and poignant photographs
Belgian artist Fernand Khnopff is considered a master of Symbolism in Europe. He painted imaginary worlds filled with androgynous figures and symbols. Read along to know more about Khnopff's mysteries.
At times of crisis in the past, writers coined words to describe our lives. Kelly Grovier explores how words like ‘frustrating’, ‘spring-clean’ and ‘outsider’ came to be.
Although only a few of her pieces have survived the years, she remains one of the most distinguished female sculptors of the inter-war period.
The trained zoologist and a bureaucrat pushed for environmental safety her whole life
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter, one of the most successful women artists (unusually so for her time), especially known for her portraits of women. She notably painted Marie-Antoinette more than 20 times and made numerous self-portraits. Learn more about Vigee-Lebrun’s life and work.
Human-made Crises 'Outrunning Our Ability To Deal With Them,' Scientists Warn "Energy, food and water crises, climate disruption, declining fisheries, ocean acidification, emerging diseases and increasing antibiotic resistance are examples of serious, intertwined global-scale challenges spawned by the accelerating scale of human activity," say the researchers, who come from Australia, Sweden, the United States, India, Greece and The Netherlands. [Follow me on Twitter.]
Master of the Female Half-Lengths
As we prepare for the release of 'Suffragette', we take a moment to pay tribute to the British movement's tiny, secret weapon: a 4'11" jiu jitsu instructor named Edith Garrud.
