Gender
Italy's statues have a gender bias, new research reveals
Public portrayals of female figures are not only rare, they are often sexualised stereotypes
Big Butch Energy: Nina Chanel Abney tells stories of college fraternities and sororities through collage
Depictions of hedonistic campus experiences are reframed through the parameters of sexuality, race and gender in the artist’s new exhibition at ICA Miami
‘I'm now living in a world where young women have fewer rights than I did’: art world reacts to US Supreme Court decision ending abortion rights
The decision, though expected, still sparked shock and outrage for many artists and gallerists
Works by women will set the pace in Sotheby’s ultra-contemporary New York evening sale
Nearly 60% of the works in the auction house’s ‘The Now’ sale are by women artists, though they are still in the minority by value
Painting of one of the first transgender women to receive sex reassignment surgery achieves auction record for Danish painter
Gerda Wegener’s 1924 painting of her partner Lili Elbe shows the subject as a languid odalisque
Bacon and beasts: an in-depth look at the visceral new show at London’s Royal Academy of Arts
Plus, Botticelli in New York and gender in Asian art in San Francisco
It took 300 years for the art world to recognise Artemisia Gentileschi—now NFTs are reinforcing the bias towards Western male artists
The latest digital craze is only perpetuating the structural sexism inherent in art history
‘Each employee is very important’: Embattled director of Detroit Institute of Arts responds to findings about management missteps
Salvador Salort-Pons says he has been working with a leadership coach to address complaints about staff members feeling undervalued
Several trustees resign from board of Detroit Institute of Arts as it reaffirms steps to monitor its besieged management
Director Salvador Salort-Pons was faulted in an independent review for authoritarian behaviour and insensitivity to race and gender
This well illustrated and wittily written book provides a thorough history of men wearing women’s clothes
Transformation, communication, exaggeration and non-conformity are some of the impulses behind cross-dressing
MFA Boston dissects the coded language of gender-bending fashion
Exhibition delves into Western pop culture’s great moments of binary disruption
Ignominy to influence: a history of women at the Royal Academy
London institution’s founders included two women, but a long period of male domination has only recently been challenged
No end to gender woes? Time’s not up in Asia
There is a gross gender imbalance across the Asian art world, but the representation of female artists, curators and dealers is also on the rise in the region
Images of female sexuality abound at Frieze New York as artists find new ways to challenge perceptions
Women doing it for (and to) themselves
Guerrilla Girls: Rewriting art history from the distaff side
“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met?” and other pointers on the good, the bad and the ugly of women in art
Books: Looking at women in Paola Tinagli's "Women in Italian Renaissance art"
No great women artists? But they star in all the pictures
Women artists provide alternative view at the Whitechapel
“Inside the visible” is on show until 8 December