by wpengine | Jan 8, 2022 | News/Blog
Guest post by Patricia Rocco, Hunter College, CUNY Although Lavinia Fontana and Elisabetta Sirani worked with paint rather than textiles, nevertheless their work intersected with Bologna’s thriving embroidery industry in the sixteenth and seventeenth...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 31, 2021 | News/Blog
Here we list all the new books about women artists—from the past, and also from the present—that have come to our attention, published in the final quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 9, 2021 | News/Blog
There hasn’t been an exhibition in the US along the lines of By Her Hand: Artemisia Gentileschi and Women Artists in Italy, 1500–1800 since 2007, when the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) hosted Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to...
by wpengine | Dec 1, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Suzanne Singletary, Professor and Associate Dean, Thomas Jefferson University On view at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation until January 9, Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, and Rebel is the first major retrospective in North America of the...
by wpengine | Nov 18, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Alessandra Masu, author, journalist and art historian Following the pioneering studies of Consuelo Lollobrigida, which culminated in the first monograph on Plautilla Bricci. Pictura et Architectura Celebris. The architect of the Roman...
by Erika Gaffney | Nov 17, 2021 | News/Blog
What an honor—Art Herstory note cards are now available at Washington DC’s iconic Politics and Prose Bookstore! A DC institution since 1984, Politics and Prose is, according to the store’s website, “devoted to cultivating community and strengthening...
