by wpengine | Sep 22, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Andaleeb Badiee Banta, Senior Curator and Department Head of Prints, Drawings & Photographs, Baltimore Museum of Art In 2020, as part of a year-long institutional initiative to purchase only art made by women, the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA)...
by wpengine | Sep 20, 2021 | News/Blog
A Multi-faceted Illuminator within Artistic and Religious Reforms Guest post by Loretta Vandi, Independent Scholar Image 1, Lucca, Burlamacchi Palace, sixteenth century, North-West View. Photo: author. The Eventful Foundation On April 5th, 1502, at 2 a.m.,...
by wpengine | Sep 9, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Mary Creed, The Morgan Library & Museum Fig. 1. Madeleine Françoise Basseporte, Portrait of a Young Woman, 1727. Pastel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Painter of the King’s Garden This week—September 6, specifically—marks the 241st anniversary of the...
by wpengine | Sep 3, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Oliver Tostmann, The Wadsworth Atheneum This late September, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, will present By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800. The exhibition, co-organized with...
by wpengine | Aug 17, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Alexandra Letvin, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College A Black man looks out from an ultramarine blue background. His hair is grown out, and he wears a red jacket adorned with gold braids and a lace collar. The precision with which the man’s...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 25, 2021 | News/Blog
Each year Art Herstory offers a new holiday card design, which features (of course!) a work by a woman artist. This year, for the first time, the Art Herstory holiday card is not by a female Old Master, nor does it reproduce a Nativity. We present the first Art...
