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 wpengine | Jul 16, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Camille Nouhant Figure 1. Outside view of the Castello del Buonconsiglio, in front of which the exhibition poster stands. The limitations of group exhibitions for women artists Much has been done for female artists, ever since the pioneering...
by wpengine | Jul 5, 2021 | News/Blog
Guest post by Cecilia Gamberini From 2 March 2021 to 25 July 2021, the rooms of Palazzo Reale in Milan are hosting an exhibition devoted to iconic Italian women artists of the Renaissance and Baroque: Le Signore dell’Arte. Storie di donne tra ’500...
by Erika Gaffney | May 17, 2021 | News/Blog
In a previous Art Herstory post, we highlighted one dozen women artists from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the time, we noted that the twelve painters and sculptors in that list represented only a small percentage of female makers of centuries...
