by Erika Gaffney | Nov 30, 2023 | News/Blog
Outdoor and indoor signage for the Making Her Mark exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Author photos. How to characterize an art exhibition as sweeping and ambitious as Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400–1800? The first term that...
by Erika Gaffney | Nov 28, 2023 | 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 third quarter of this calendar year. Each description is drawn from the blurb on the publisher’s website. Do you know of other...
by artherstory | Nov 8, 2023 | News/Blog
A New Acquisition for the National Gallery of Ireland Guest post by Lizzie Marx, Curator of Dutch and Flemish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland An Animate Still Life In 1742, when Dutch artist Rachel Ruysch was 78 or 79, she painted the delightful...
by artherstory | Jun 28, 2023 | News/Blog
Guest post by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University (emerita) Starting with the recognition that both artist and viewer shape, in cultural and religious terms, how Mary Magdalene has been perceived, identified, and categorized across time, my new...
by Erika Gaffney | Dec 28, 2022 | News/Blog
Maria Hadfield Cosway has recently closed at the Fondazione Maria Cosway. On January 15, Sofonisba—History’s Forgotten Miracle closes at Nivaagaards Malerisamling and Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature closes at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. What do fans of...