Women Artists

In from the cold: at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Tirzah Garwood finally takes the spotlight

A new show at last unshackles the artist from her husband, Eric Ravilious

Art marketanalysis

Historical auction results show centuries-old demand for women artists

Our exclusive analysis of auction records in Paris until 1850 reveals around 500 sales of works by women, and striking parallels to the art trade today

Parrish Art Museum provides a fitting tribute to Audrey Flack, queen of ‘Post-Pop Baroque’

The New York show celebrates the late artist's melding of contemporary culture with art history

The life and art of Mabel Nicholson: new volume tells of the career catastrophe of domestic bliss

How lovingly raising her artistic family cost an artist of “tensile strength” her own fame

‘A driving force’: show at London’s Freud Museum to celebrate the women central to psychoanalyst’s world

The exhibition opening in October will bring together works by artists including Paula Rego, Cornelia Parker, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas

Do Ho Suh, Busan Biennale and a spotlight on Asian women artists: what to see during Frieze Seoul

Exhibitions to see in Seoul during the fair, plus two major biennials to visit beyond the city

The Week in Art podcast | Tate’s historic women artists show, Dia at 50, Martin Wong’s record-breaking painting

Exploring Now You See Us, which celebrates the output of Vanessa Bell, Mary Beale and many more, plus conversations about Dia’s legacy and the ’visual linguist‘ Wong

Booksreview

A women’s art history that goes beyond the brush and is a call to action

A new publication offers a more inclusive approach that also honours the “unexceptional”

From audioguides without men to a new women's museum in London, here's how the art world is celebrating International Women's Day

We've compiled a list of exhibitions of events whose impact on foregrounding women artists is likely to live on beyond one calendar day

New book celebrates collector Eileen Harris Norton’s role in shaping Los Angeles's art scene

Norton, who is also the co-founder of the non-profit Art + Practice, has championed the work of women artists and artists of colour in the city

Women come to the fore at Untitled Art fair

An inclusive curatorial theme sees works by older female artists snapped up

Booksreview

A new book paints a colourful picture of the little known Mary Wykeham—poet, Surrealist, war artist and nun

The British artist retreated from her remarkable career to embrace a religious life

Claudette Johnson: ‘I’m trying to introduce another gaze—a Black feminist gaze’

The artist discusses her Courtauld show and why Black men became subjects for her work

‘In some of the bubbles there was a face or the body of a woman trapped inside’: Valeria Napoleone on finding a connection with an artist's practice

The Italian collector, who helps fund the acquisition of women artists’ work by UK museums, likes to take her time when choosing what to buy

A brush with... Claudette Johnson

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Toni Morrison's writings to Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack
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How women played a bigger role in the Renaissance and beyond

Two exhibitions, in Boston and Baltimore, celebrate the overlooked women artists who were working in Europe from the 15th century onwards

Forthcoming New York exhibition on women artists will present Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg’s collection to the public for the first time

The couple have put together a major collection of 300 works by mostly modern and contemporary women artists

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First suppressed, then disregarded, Korea’s pioneering experimental women artists of the 1960s are finally taking centre stage

Recent exhibitions are shining a deserved light on a generation of artists who defied patriarchal norms to make their work

Female Land artists come out of the shadows at Dallas's Nasher Sculpture Center

The exhibition will shed new light on lesser-known, often ephemeral, works by women

Europe's 'first museum dedicated to art by women artists' to open in southern France

Former trader Christian Levett's rebranded institution will present works by Joan Mitchell, Howardena Pindell and Cecily Brown among others

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How Afghanistan’s art degrees are disappearing

The Taliban’s restrictions on women’s freedom, the absence of expertise and a collapsed economy are limiting opportunities in higher education

‘Like a striptease’: Gypsy Rose Lee’s legacy lives on as her works remain elusive

New York theatre producer attempts to collect works by women of a landmark 1943 exhibition

Woman's best friend too: Dublin show on trailblazing Renaissance painter Lavinia Fontana puts dogs centre stage

Numerous spaniels featured in the National Gallery of Ireland exhibition are likened to Paris Hilton's chihuahuas by show's curator

Booksreview

From Morocco to Malaysia: new publication traces the US artist Betye Saar’s journeys of discovery

Richly produced book documents how the nonagenarian artist’s work has been informed by her decades of travel

‘Everything was taken from me’: how Lotte Laserstein’s paintbox saved her during Nazi-era exile

Largest exhibition of the German-born artist opens at the Moderna Museet in her adopted home of Sweden

How Lavinia Fontana went from ‘prospect’ to first professional woman artist

An exhibition of the 16th-century Italian painter at the National Gallery of Ireland tells the story of her unique circumstances and reveals the results of a recently restored work

Paula Rego’s monumental mural filled with famous female figures—and National Gallery staff—to go on show in London

Ten-metre long painting will be displayed alongside the 15th-century altarpiece that served as its inspiration

Lithuaniaanalysis

Is Lithuania set to become the new centre of performance art?

The launch of the Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art builds on the Baltic country's success at the 2019 Venice Biennale, where its operatic art installation scooped the Golden Lion