As Women’s History Month draws to a close, here are 10 recent biographies of women artists to round out your reading list—at any point throughout the year. Sheila Barker tackles the life and career of ...

In the early 1990s, the art historian Barbara Bloemink was rummaging through a Yale library in search of a dissertation topic when she came across “a funny letter about how impossible men are” from ...

The Slips of lower Manhattan—sites of former ship berths on the East River, now landfill paved into streets and plazas—evoke, in our historical memory, the tall ships and chandleries of the 19th ...

You’ve seen Yayoi Kusama dotted merchandise and children’s books; listened to Kusama-themed podcasts; and even seen the documentary chronicling the Japanese artist’s life and career. Now, for the ...

PHILADELPHIA— Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was a 19th-century British artist and naturalist who significantly changed the way society thought about the world and its pre-human inhabitants. Hawkins drew ...

Like Van Gogh, it's an artistic style you recognize immediately. His images speak their own language, canvases with cartoon-inspired barking dogs, flying saucers, hearts, pyramids, ziggurat stairways, ...

In Nancy Mitford’s “The Pursuit of Love,” the young narrator, Fanny—this is circa World War I—asks her Aunt Sadie what mysterious crime Oscar Wilde had committed. Sadie, greatly flustered, admits that ...

Anyone expecting the Baltimore Museum of Art’s groundbreaking survey of European women artists from 1400-1800 to simply ascend a group of overlooked female painters to a heightened status equal that ...

Isamu Noguchi was a difficult man who made art easy to look at. In his life and work, he was riddled with contradictions. Humble and egotistical. Steadfast and temperamental. Listless and energetic. A ...

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