Figurative artist Claire Connolly is embarking upon a two-prong artistic journey that begins with a series of seven oil portraits depicting childbearing women of color – each imbued with personal ...

There will be a time when the work of women artists has become so pervasive among museum collections that special exhibitions calling attention to their achievements are no longer necessary to balance ...

Dulwich Picture Gallery sheds new light on the Baroque master’s female subjects. Peter Paul Rubens, Portrait of a Lady, c. 1625, oil on panel, 79.7 x 65.7 cm. Courtesy Dulwich Picture Gallery. Devorah ...

What started as a casual search through the bargain bins at her local Goodwill turned into an extraordinary discovery for Sarah Parry from Keller, Texas, when she stumbled on an oil painting with an ...

New generations of women painters are challenging centuries of art history with their nuanced, empathetic renderings of bare-chested bodies. By Zoë Lescaze Women’s breasts have been a fixation of ...

Elizabeth Okie Paxton, "The Breakfast Tray" (c. 1910), oil on canvas, 21 x 17 inches (all images courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, has ...

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LONDON — Halfway through the exhibition Reframed: The Woman in the Window at Dulwich Picture Gallery is Isa Genzken’s "Fenster" (1990), a large, rough-hewn concrete frame placed on a metal stand. The ...

A rare painting by the street artist Banksy, inspired by the recently deceased Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, sold for nearly 4.3 million pounds ($5.5 million) Tuesday, according to auction house ...

Last month, a pair of climate activists attacked a painting known as “The Rokeby Venus,” by the Spanish master Diego Velázquez, which hangs in London’s National Gallery, using hammers to smash the ...