The Dutch "old mistress" was renowned in her own lifetime. But since her death 275 years ago, her legacy has been largely forgotten ...

"We've been supportive characters for far too long and … my art gives Black women their flowers and lets them know that they are the leading role." The scale of Thomas' paintings, often made of ...

Just when I thought that spring would never come, the forsythia and daffodils are out, and tender green leaves are beginning to sprout from the long, bare branches. However, nothing signals the change ...

These women concocted a tea from the flower’s leaves ... It wasn’t men’s business at all.” Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. As Bliumis began researching ...

The internet has been bamboozled by a 162-year-old painting where a ... holding a pink flower. Through a 21st-century lens, it seems as though the woman is scrolling through her iPhone while ...

"So as I was growing up, my mom was making these flowers, she was making wreaths, and these were made for every right of passage, mostly funerals." Sabina Miller put on demonstrations of the art at ...

The women in Khosravi’s paintings are often depicted as bound by strings or concealed behind walls, flowers or hands in what she describes as a struggle for autonomy. Yet, they possess a ...

Why did a single flower magnetize me? What can a flower — or a painting of a flower — do when you are lost in a blizzard? I myself wasn’t sure. Initially, I thought it was just the simple ...

In Mickalene Thomas' work, Black women are front and center. "We've been supportive characters for far too long," she says. "I would describe my art as radically shifting notions of beauty by ...