There has been a healthy run of shows
by female artists in the last couple of years, including those dedicated to Agnes Martin and Yayoi Kusama.
Providing new perspective on vital female contributions to art history across mediums, genres, and periods, the exhibition schedule is anchored by major solo exhibitions of work by Laura Owens, Ida O'Keeffe, and Berthe Morisot and showcases a range of significant works
by female artists in the Museum's collection.
To offer a larger understanding of the major roles women artists have played for over three centuries, the DMA will mount a series of focused presentations highlighting exemplary works
by female artists in the Museum's collection.
The Rubell Family is showcasing works
by female artists in their 45,000 square foot museum, and even rotating the works throughout the show's run.
Girls» Club presents Change Agents, an exhibition of works
by female artists in South Florida, whose careers and creative projects advance the global conversation about contemporary art, demonstrate dynamic ways in which artists can be self - sustaining, while nurturing the career advancement of others.
A lifelong advocate for women in the arts, Weiss was also a friend of the Hall's and inspired the inclusion of many works
by female artists in the Hall and Hall Art Foundation collections.
The scheme places early - to mid-career work
by female artists in museums across the US and UK.
Tate acquires Joan Carlile portrait The Tate gallery has announced a round of new acquisitions in its annual report, including a landmark portrait by 17th - century British painter Joan Carlile that now represents the oldest work
by a female artist in the museum's collection — one which was long assumed to be the work of a man.
Not exact matches
Treat the special women
in you life with a gift made
by one of Chicago's talented
female artists.
The $ 50 bill issued
in 2004 featured a picture of a monument to the Famous Five, unveiled on Parliament Hill
in 2000,
by Edmonton
artist Barbara Paterson, who says she's annoyed
by the erasure of
female images.
Upon careful analysis, at least ten such points become apparent: (1) Blake alone among Christian
artists has created a whole mythology; (2) he was the first to discover the final loss of paradise, the first to acknowledge that innocence has been wholly swallowed up
by experience; (3) no other Christian
artist or seer has so fully directed his vision to history and experience; (4) to this day his is the only Christian vision that has openly or consistently accepted a totally fallen time and space as the paradoxical presence of eternity; (5) he stands alone among Christian
artists in identifying the actual passion of sex as the most immediate epiphany of either a demonic or a redemptive «Energy,» just as he is the only Christian visionary who has envisioned the universal role of the
female as both a redemptive and a destructive power; (6) his is the only Christian vision of the total kenotic movement of God or the Godhead; (7) he was the first Christian «atheist,» the first to unveil God as Satan; (8) he is the most Christocentric of Christian seers and
artists; (9) only Blake has created a Christian vision of the full identity of Jesus with the individual human being (the «minute particular»); and (10) as the sole creator of a post-biblical Christian apocalypse, he has given Christendom its only vision of a total cosmic reversal of history.
Basically limited to one location's interior and grounds, «The Intervention» is smoothly crafted
in all tech / design departments, though disinclined toward any bold stylistic contributions — the closest to that being a soundtrack of pleasant, somewhat interchangeable
female - driven various -
artist cuts and an original score
by Sara Quin of Canadian duo Tegan & Sara.
They include an alternate opening of Carol doing an voice exercise with an annoyingly - voiced woman interviewing her
in a bookstore, more of and on Dani and Moe's rocky marriage, a scene featuring an accomplished
female voiceover
artist (played
by Melissa Disney), and a number of additional clips from the convincing fake reality dating TV show woven throughout the film,
«I can connect to the other, because it has so many parallels to my own life — just
by being a
female, African - American
artist in today's music industry.
February 1, 2010 • Beyonce grabbed six Grammy's on Sunday, the most awards won
in a single night
by a
female artist since the Grammy award show began 52 years ago.
One of the films that didn't blow us away at Sundance, but offered a solid film full of jokes made just for cinephiles, was
In a World... The film directed by actress Lake Bell follows a young female voice coach (Bell) as she joins the all - male race to land the white - hot new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy, and with it lay claim to the legendary trailer catchphrase «In a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talen
In a World... The film directed
by actress Lake Bell follows a young
female voice coach (Bell) as she joins the all - male race to land the white - hot new trailer of a blockbuster trilogy, and with it lay claim to the legendary trailer catchphrase «
In a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talen
In a world...» She faces stuffy, douchebag competition
in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talen
in Ken Marino and even her own father (Fred Melamed), a legendary voice - over
artist who can't bring himself to recognize his daughter's talent.
The
Artist may have continued to build credibility as a genuine Oscar ® candidate as it scored nominations for Outstanding Performance
by a
Female Actor
in a Supporting Role and Outstanding Performance
by a Cast
in a Motion Picture, but The Help took the most nomination
by a single film with four [Viola Davis nominated for Outstanding Performance
by a
Female Actor
in a Leading Role; Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer nominated for Outstanding Performance
by a
Female Actor
in a Supporting Role; The Help nominated for Outstanding Performance
by a Cast
in a Motion Picture].
Outstanding Performance
by a
Female Actor
in a Supporting Role BÉRÉNICE BEJO / Peppy — «THE
ARTIST» (The Weinstein Company) JESSICA CHASTAIN / Celia Foote — «THE HELP» (DreamWorks Pictures / Touchstone Pictures) MELISSA McCARTHY / Megan — «BRIDESMAIDS» (Universal Pictures) JANET McTEER / Hubert Page — «ALBERT NOBBS» (Roadside Attractions) OCTAVIA SPENCER / Minny Jackson — «THE HELP» (DreamWorks Pictures / Touchstone Pictures)
Bullock heads up the powerhouse cast of this all -
female spinoff of the «Ocean's 11» trilogy, playing Debbie Ocean, the estranged sister of George Clooney's master con
artist, Danny Ocean (who appears to be dead, judging
by the tombstone with his name on it
in the trailer).
A graduate of the University of Virginia, Sara is a 2016 Stevie Award Winner for «
Female Innovator of the Year;» a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum; an American Express Ashoka Emerging Innovator; a Cordes Fellow with the Opportunity Collaboration; a Peace X Peace 2012 Women, Power, & Peace Award Winner (Generation Peace Award); the only U.S. recipient of the Youth Leader Award
in the Americas
by the Inter-American Development Bank Annual Board of Governors Meeting; an Ashoka Activating Empathy Award Winner; a three - time Beyond Sport Award Finalist; named a «Woman Entrepreneur»
by World Resources Institute New Ventures Mexico; a Creative Community Fellow with National Arts Strategies; a StartingBloc Fellow; a Finalist Nominee Social Entrepreneur / Innovator for the Women's Information Network 18th Annual Young Women of Achievement Award; 1 of 3
Artists Transforming the World
by the Arts and Healing Network; Global Good Fund Fellow; honored among The Jewish Week NY's «36 Under 36»; and a Susan Schiffer Stautberg Leadership Fellow.
Renoir's Dancer
by Catherine Hewitt As a
female artist trying to make a name for herself a few decades before the subject of Hewitt's fascinating biography, Amy has a lot
in common with Suzanne Valadon, a favorite model of Renoir who became an accomplished painter
in her own right.
A couple new dog books featured
in The New York Times today — Afterglow (
by Eileen Myles) and Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home (Nicole J. Georges)-- showcase how these two
female authors» respective dogs not only made them better
artists, but better people as well!
Come visit one of the newest studios
in the Funk Zone and see some great art
by three of Santa Barbara's great
female artists.
«The
Female Gaze, Part II: Women Looking at Men,» a group show that runs at Cheim & Read through September 2, is as ambitious
in scope as it is
in ideology, showcasing work
by a wide range of
artists — including Tracey Emin, Alice Neel,... Read More
In so doing, Brice reverses the traditional portrayal of passive
female figures
by male
artists for male viewers and returns power to the women involved.
Unacknowledged or under - acknowledged at the time, relegated to the margins or forgotten
by history, the profound
female artists of their time inverted the male gaze and anticipated the future while male Pop
artists were getting stuck
in their own styles.
ARTnews magazine has devoted its June issue to a special report assessing the state of women
in the art world — how women
artists are faring
in terms of solo museum exhibitions and representation
in museum collections, gallery representation, press coverage and market valuation, and also measuring opportunities garnered
by female curators and museum directors.
The wall text,
in light gray, stopped me
in my tracks: This year, Lehmann Maupin Gallery is pleased to present a selection of works
by the
female artists from the gallery.
The Untitled Space gallery is pleased to present exhibition, UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN, curated
by Indira Cesarine, featuring the work of 80
female contemporary
artists responding to the current social and political climate
in America
in light of the recent presidential election.
This collaborative programme led
by Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA) brings together five distinct art organisations across the UK, to show a diverse range of art works and new commissions from some of the most exciting
female artists working
in mainland China.
Linder features recent and older works, including the Star series (2007),
in which the
artist imposes giant roses and other lush flowers on naked
female torsos, and the Pretty Girl series (1997), a suite of images
in which the heads of black - and - white pinups are replaced
by home appliances.
West conceived the two sides of the installation Synchronie (Abriss)[Synchrony (Synopsis)-RSB-, 1997, as male and
female, positioning his furniture
in front of works
by (on the male side) Michelangelo Pistoletto, Meyer Vaisman, Zobernig et al. and (on the
female side) the Italian
artists Carla Accardi and Mariella Simoni.
REPRESENTATION Ryan Lee Gallery
in New York announces its representation of Emma Amos, the youngest and sole
female member of Spiral, the African American
artists collective co-founded
by Romare Bearden
in 1963.
Her work as a curator includes exhibits «The «F» Word: Feminism
in Art» a group show of 20
female artists, «Human / Nature» a group show revolving around environmental themes and «Allegories of The Held», a solo show of works
by artist Jennifer Caviola aka Cake, as well as «The Voyeur» exhibit at Art Basel Miami sponsored
by The American Friends of The Louvre.
At the end of January,
artist / critic / curator Alex Ebstein opened Phoebe, a new gallery
in Baltimore that focuses on work
by female - identified
artists.
This discourse
by women
artists and philosophers addressing issues of
female subjectivity and ownership of sexual imagery for their own desire and pleasure continues to be challenged and explored today
by women
in art and popular culture.
First held at the Galerie Internationale d'Art Contemporain
in Paris
in 1960, Klein's performances (now considered
by many to be outrageously sexist) featured nude
female models — who the
artist referred to as «human paintbrushes» — rolling themselves
in his patented International Klein Blue paint.
GoMA has been researching and acquiring documentary media
by influential
female artists since 2007, increasing the representation of women working
in this field within the city's collection and highlighting the contribution of
female artists to contemporary art practice overall.
Venus Fly features new abstract work
by three
female artists each working
in different media: large - scale paintings, mixed media wood carvings, and ceramics.
Last November, Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed / Flower No. 1 became the most expensive work
by a
female artist ever sold at auction, fetching $ 44.4 million (see Wall Flowers — women
in historical art collections).
51 % of visual
artists today are women, yet only 3 - 5 % of the work presented
in major, permanent collections
in the US and Europe is created
by a
female artist.
This tension was brought to light recently
by the Yams collective, which withdrew from the Biennial
in protest of the inclusion of work
by Joe Scanlan, a Princeton professor who submitted work fictitiously created
by a black
female artist named Donelle Woolford — a hornet's nest of racial and gender - based provocation.
The piece, which was funded
by CETA, included
artists, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, Franklin Parker, Houston Conwill, and Ulysses Jenkins, among others,
in an improvisational musical and dance performance, based around an encounter with male and
female spiritual energies.
Drawing from the National Museum of Women
in the Arts collection, this show features photography and video works
by 17
artists focusing their camera on the
female body as a vital medium for storytelling, expressing identity and reflecting individual and collective experience.
In 2017
female artists are automatically entered to this Prize, which is sponsored
by an anonymous donor.
,
in partnership with the Lower Eastside Girls Club (see VIDEO), benefitting local
female - driven arts organizations, the fair will present a full roster of 1,200 works of art
by 78 global exhibitors including progressive galleries, curators, and independent
artists.
Statistics from 2012 reveal that 90 per cent of the visual
artists featured
in art books were men; work
by women
artists made up three to five per cent of major permanent collections
in the US and Europe; artworks
by female artists achieved none of the highest 100 auction prices; of The Art Newspaper's top 30 most visited exhibitions
in New York, Paris, and London, only three were solo exhibitions featuring
female artists.
Highlights from Michelle Grabner's crowd - pleasing selection include Dawoud Bey's presidential portrait photography (Barack Obama, 2008), Karl Haendel's Theme Time Drawings, pencil drawings of various subjects arranged
in shaped frames across a massive section of wall, and works
by Donelle Woolford, the fictional young black
female artist «created»
by Joe Scanlan and played
by various actors whose Joke Painting (detumescence)(2013) investigates the notion of authenticity.
In Delahunty's words, this sculpture is «one of the first commissioned works by a living female artist to be installed at the entrance of an American Museum» and it is «by far the most ambitious sculpture she has ever made in terms of scale and painted surface.&raqu
In Delahunty's words, this sculpture is «one of the first commissioned works
by a living
female artist to be installed at the entrance of an American Museum» and it is «
by far the most ambitious sculpture she has ever made
in terms of scale and painted surface.&raqu
in terms of scale and painted surface.»
Surface Work which recently opened at Victoria Miro gallery
in London aims to reverse the marginalization of women
in this sphere
by profiling the
female Abstract Expressionist
artists.