by artherstory | Feb 20, 2025 | News/Blog
Guest post by Sivan Maoz, MA Graduate, The Warburg Institute, London The biblical story of Judith recounts how a young Jewish widow saved her people by using her wit and charm to behead the Assyrian general Holofernes. Central to this narrative is Judith’s...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 31, 2024 | News/Blog
Already 2025 has much to offer in terms of art museum shows about women artists from the distant past through the present. Here, though, we focus (almost) exclusively on art exhibitions about women artists from the Renaissance to about the mid-20th century. Some are...
by artherstory | Nov 25, 2024 | News/Blog
Guest post by Alessandra Masu, author, journalist and art historian Finally. After the pioneering studies of Consuelo Lollobrigida and Sheila Barker and a few other specialists, mostly women (also including Lucia Tomasi Tongiorgi, Lucia Fois, and Anna Lisa Genovese),...
by Erika Gaffney | Oct 12, 2024 | News/Blog
Here we list children’s books about women artists—from the distant past to the present—published from around the time of Art Herstory’s launch. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. If you know of other titles that should be...
by Erika Gaffney | Jul 31, 2024 | 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 second quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. Do you know of...
