WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Museums entice us to feel awe. You enter former royal palaces, stand before “The Night Watch,” “Las Meninas,” or “The Raft of the Medusa” and sense it immediately: behind these ...

A celebration of Black women’s art, culture, and creativity is underway at Tougaloo College this weekend. Mississippi native ...

Joana Galego Our Mother's Cloak 2024 Paint, glitter, glue, and soft pastel on canvas 65 x 124.75 in (165.10 x 316.86 cm) Our gaze oscillates between a lavish blue woodland scene, three children ...

So often, a work of art is meant to reflect beauty, the artist dexterously rendering something that is pleasing to the eye, recording it for posterity. But in “Uncanny” at the National Museum of Women ...

" Comparsa " is a documentary that tells the story of two sisters as they work to reimagine their community through art. "Comparsa is the name of the art form that Lesli and Lupe use when they want to ...

The Norton Museum of Art’s 2025-26 season will feature Dutch art, works by women artists and the return of popular events. A ...

A book by Renaissance scholar Emanuele Lugli tells the story of Lavinia Fontana, who found rare success in the 1500s as a woman artist. An exhibition about the book is on view at Stanford through Dec.

Award-winning actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor hosted The Convocation: A Gathering of Black Women Artists at Tougaloo College this weekend.

The museum industry has some serious work to do, in terms of equal representation. Museum collections typically include far more works by white men than works by other artists, according to Rachel ...

When art historian Linda Nochlin famously asked “why have there been no great women artists?” in 1971, her point wasn’t that women lacked talent. It was that the art world had systematically excluded ...