While the sale of “Miss January” sets a new record price for a work of art by a living female artist, works by male artists have traditionally sold for much more. At Wednesday’s auction ...

By Rachel Sherman The Brooklyn Academy of Music will welcome its 42nd Next Wave festival this fall, with most works created by female artists, the performing arts center announced on Thursday.

On Wednesday night in New York, Christie’s held a fairly swift sale of 21st-century art that pulled in $96.5 million, beating the $80.3 million that the same sale totaled last year. But there ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

But what about their lives and stories? Only recently have we begun to give credit to the female Surrealist artists who were pigeon-holed into being muses and partners of their great male counterparts ...

Rich Polk But some of the performances by younger female artists on the show made it feel like that epoch never went away. Lambert sang a song from her latest album that is one of the best of her ...

Two nude female figures lie embracing in bed. The piece honors the enduring love of Cronin and her life partner, even though same-sex marriage was not legal when the sculpture was made in the early ...

Though the shows were not planned to be interlinked, Seidel believes visitors will find connections between the female artists. Mildred Thompson, “Music of the Spheres: Mars,” 1996. Oil on wood.

Former Walters Art Museum CEO and Executive Director Julia M. Alexander died Sunday night at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center, the Baltimore museum confirmed. The cause of death was a heart attack ...

“In this painting, Dumas triumphantly demonstrates a formal mastery of the woman’s body while simultaneously freeing it from a tradition of subjection, upending normalised concepts of the ...