In the late 1960s, a number of female artists aimed to influence the cultural conversation around gender equality through their artwork. The general message was simple: women deserve to have the same ...

TORONTO, Sept. 18, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Behr Paint Company is proud to announce the introduction of its Women in Paint™ program, an initiative designed to elevate the achievements of Canadian ...

There will be a time when the work of women artists has become so pervasive among museum collections that special exhibitions calling attention to their achievements are no longer necessary to balance ...

Coady Brown's 2022 oil-on-canvas painting "The Magician's Assistant" is among the works by 28 female artists featured in "Women of Now: Dialogues of Memory, Place & Identity." The exhibition runs ...

Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun’s imposing, life-sized “Portrait of Muhammad Dervish Khan” sold for $7.2 million last night at Sotheby’s New York, exceeding the high end estimate of $6 million, and ...

Yet Paris was called the City of Light. It was home to cultural bastions such as the Louvre and to artists like Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul ...

The painting once enjoyed pride of place, hanging in a queen's chambers. Then centuries of varnish, overpaint and dirt obscured not only the work but also its artist. The layers of history have now ...

In "A Midsummer Afternoon Dream" (detail view), artist Amy Sherald uses a grayscale rendering to portray a woman of color, a bold move away from verisimilitude that highlights the personhood of the ...

At the cutting-edge Maccarone gallery in New York last week, a packed, largely female audience gathered to hear a powerhouse of women artists discuss feminism and painting. Moderated by Alison ...