by Erika Gaffney | Feb 21, 2026 | News/Blog
As we all know, March is Women’s History Month! Here we present, in chronological order, a list of events having to do with women in art. We include all March 2026 events we have heard about that focus on women artists, though not all are Women’s History Month...
by Erika Gaffney | Feb 17, 2026 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder Early this month, the National Gallery of Art disclosed its purchase of Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, a painting by Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi. The announcement has resonated throughout the art world. According to the...
by artherstory | Jan 29, 2026 | News/Blog
Guest post by Alessandra Masu, author, journalist and art historian After the inauguration of the new Sala delle Pittrici (Hall of Women Painters) at Palazzo Braschi in Rome, I spent part of the holidays visiting three pioneering exhibitions on women artists in Modern...
by artherstory | Jan 24, 2026 | News/Blog
by Erika Gaffney, Art Herstory Founder The year 2025 saw major new auction records set for art by women, both living and historic. Selling for US $13.6 million, Marlene Dumas’ Miss January became the most expensive artwork by a living female artist sold at...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 31, 2025 | News/Blog
Already we are seeing announcements of 2026 art museum shows about women artists from the distant past through the present. Here we focus (almost) exclusively on art exhibitions about women artists born before the end of the 19th century. Some are large-scale shows,...
