by wpengine | Apr 20, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Mary D. Garrard, American University (Emerita) In spring 2020, two female Old Master solo exhibitions would have occurred simultaneously: Artemisia Gentileschi, at the National Gallery, London, and Giovanna Garzoni, at Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The...
by wpengine | Apr 16, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Sheila ffolliott, Professor Emerita of Art History, George Mason University This post follows upon Merry Wiesner-Hanks’ guest piece Why Do Old Mistresses Matter Today? posted here on 21 April 2019. It is also a pendant post of The Politics of...
by wpengine | Apr 14, 2020 | News/Blog
Women Artists and Their Contended Place in Public History Guest post by Sheila Barker, The Medici Archive Project This essay is a pendant post of Do We Have Any Great Women Artists Yet?, by Sheila ffolliott. Women Now, Whitney Annual protest by Ad Hoc Women Artists’...
by wpengine | Mar 31, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Drēma Drudge, author of the new novel Victorine Olympia, 1863, by Édouard Manet. Held at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris; source, Wikipedia. When I first encountered Victorine Meurent, it was her as Olympia in Édouard Manet’s iconic...
by wpengine | Mar 25, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Ann Sylph, Librarian at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) As the saying goes, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Both art and science help people to reconnect with nature and to take action to protect it. The value of art in communicating...
