The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut is revisiting its landmark 1971 feminist art exhibition “26 Contemporary Women Artists” with…
By the end of her life, the self-taught artist Nellie Mae Rowe (1900–1982) had been widely recognized for her unique artistic…
New York’s New Museum has launched one of the world’s largest art prizes with one clear objective: to recognize path-breaking female…
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the late Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell is the subject of a major U.S.…
Visitors to New York’s Armory Show, which opened to VIPs today, can catch a glimpse of what the future may…
On paper, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s show of seven paintings by the Italian Renaissance great Titian might sound a modest…
Chuck Close, whose distinctive, monumental portraits and self-portraits toyed with viewers’ perception, has died of complications from a long illness…
In the 19th century, the phrase “The Great Game” was used to describe competition for power and influence in Afghanistan,…
As the Taliban takes control of the country, Afghanistan has again become an extremely dangerous place to be a woman.…
On the eve of her first museum retrospective, Oakland-based painter Hung Liu, one of the first Chinese artists to find success…
News Britney Spears’ father has agreed to step down from her conservatorship might have you wondering how equivalent laws work…
This week marks nine years since Australia re-introduced a policy of offshore processing for asylum seekers arriving by boat. Nine…
With COVID numbers surging in Sydney’s multicultural western suburbs, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard speculated that migrant and refugee communities…
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been repeatedly harmed by policies and decisions that drive systematic dispossession, disempowerment, overincarceration…
There is a national incarceration crisis impacting First Nations women in Australia. First Nations women are the fastest-growing prison population,…
The Belarusian sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya left Tokyo this week after her Olympics were over, bound not for her home country,…
This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show…
Simone Biles, the US gymnast widely considered “the greatest of all time”, withdrew from the Olympic finals this week, saying:…
