Women Artists

Let us now praise famous women : Museums finally find their feminine side

A wave of exhibitions of influential female artists begins this month on both sides of the Atlantic

Christie'sarchive

Paintings by women, paintings of women

Record sales for women artists at Christie's

Cheim & Read’s year of women artists

Exhibitions included artists Joan Mitchell, Jenny Holzer and more

Friezearchive

Women artists are doing it for themselves at Frieze Masters

The London fair features a raft of women, including Judy Chicago, who are eschewing assembly-line art

Women artists lead the way in Brazil

Unlike their Western counterparts, female Brazilian artists are at the forefront of the market

Art Baselarchive

It’s a man’s (art) world—or is it?

Only around 25% of the dealers at Art Basel are female, but women are giving no quarter as the playing field begins to level out

Surrealismarchive

Surrealist women artists follow Alice’s footsteps in new exhibition

Female surrealists are having their day in the sun at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma)

Iranarchive

An interview with Anahita Razmi, winner of the Frieze Art Fair's Emdash Award '11

How a 12-screen video installation on show at Frieze was filmed despite Iran’s strict regime

Mexico’s female focus

Fair devotes section to emerging women artists

Iranarchive

Robert Adanto's documentary "Pearls on the Ocean Floor" throws spotlight on Iran's revolutionary female artists

The women who go against the grain, featured at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

Filmsarchive

Art on the big screen: Documenting feminism and how women changed the (art) world

Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film is an invaluable historical record of the feminist art movement in the US

Art Baselarchive

Where are the women of Art Basel?

High priced male artists such as Warhol and Picasso dominate the stands

Art Baselarchive

Where are the women at Art Basel?

High priced male artists such as Warhol and Picasso dominate the stands

Books: Impressionist women and Impressionists’ women

New works on a quartet of women painters and the wives and models of three of the men

Diversityarchive

Feminist art cracks the market’s glass ceiling

Historical trends of male art selling for more are being challenged

New York’s women on film

Chiara Clemente's "Our City Dreams" at Art Basel

Exchange scheme for Emirati women artists

Sheikha Manal Al Maktoum launched the program yesterday

Tatearchive

Tate to buy more work by women

The gender imbalance within the Tate's holdings is to be redressed, following in the footsteps of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm

Women by women in photography

Commercial photography in New York City

Jane Evelyn Atwood's new book 'Too much time: women in prison' reviewed

“People often ask how I could pursue such a ‘sad’ subject for so long”

“Overcoming all obstacles: Women of the Académie Julian”

Exhibition shows at Dixon Gallery, Memphis, 9 July-24 September

The first museum show devoted to the Académie Julian

This provided women artists with vital instruction in life-drawing