The inconvenient ‘public women’ of history
In a patriarchal world, women who refused to conform to traditional roles were viewed as transgressive and subversive ...
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Manhattan artist's suffragist mural is going down in history
A painting by a Manhattan artist is going down in Kansas history. Phyllis Garibay-Coon, the first woman to have a painting ...
Caspar David Friedrich: A Solitary Wanderer Finding His Way in the Fog
The first major U.S. exhibition of Germany’s great Romantic painter is a historic showcase. It’s also a blueprint for how to ...
Sex, death and time rise from Tissot’s art
The potent combination of sex and death appears again and again in a small exhibition of Tissot’s prints and paintings ...
Major exhibition celebrating 200 years of The Bowes Museum's co-founder opens this weekend
The Bowes Museum, just over the North Yorkshire border, is pleased to announce its major new exhibition 'From Joséphine Bowes ...
History of Bengal textiles: How enslaved Bengali artisans made an impact on global enterprise
Bengali textile workers were not enslaved as ancillary to men or as commodities of pleasure alone. They were enslaved and ...
Symphony review: Masterworks 5 revitalizes our awareness of American history through spiritual melodies and the words of Martin Luther King Jr.
English Aristocrat Sir Philip Sidney wrote an essay titled “In Defense of Poesy.” In this text, he defends the value of ...
10-Minute Challenge: Bruegel’s ‘Hunters in the Snow’
Today, we bring you a new installment of our focus challenges, in which we ask you to spend uninterrupted time looking at one ...
Exhibit featuring centuries worth of European drawings draws attention at CT museum
Paper, Color, Line” is on display through April 27 at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, features over a ...