by wpengine | Nov 17, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Isabel Gilmour, Bachelor of Arts Candidate in Art History, Columbia University The unabashed and open expression of one’s sexual desire is still taboo in American society. But with her male landscapes that communicate her erotic desire for the male...
by Erika Gaffney | Nov 12, 2020 | News/Blog
#BeAPatron on Sunday, November 29—or any time! The Barnes Foundation. Photo courtesy of museumstoresunday.org. Now in its fourth consecutive year, Museum Store Sunday has become an event we look forward to all year long. Museum gift shops around the world join forces...
by wpengine | Nov 2, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Adelina Modesti, Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Fig. 1. Self-Portrait as an Allegory of Painting, signed and dated “ELISAB.TA SIRANI F. 1658.” Moscow, Pushkin Museum. Painted for “Signor Cavazza, notary of the bishopric.”...
by wpengine | Oct 27, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Sheila McTighe, The Courtauld Institute of Art Threatened by pandemic closure but rescued to great acclaim, this exhibition of Artemisia Gentileschi’s work promises to be a turning point in the appreciation of early modern women artists. How will it...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 25, 2020 | News/Blog
Facade of the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama. We are pleased and excited to announce that the Birmingham Museum of Art Shop now carries Art Herstory note cards and Christmas cards! If you live nearby or are visiting the area, you can buy the cards on...
by wpengine | Oct 23, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Angela Oberer Art historians have documented the growing market of eager art lovers and collectors seeking to buy sensually and erotically charged images by the end of the seventeenth century. Still, it remains a somewhat puzzling fact that, as a woman...
