For Iranian artist Arghavan Khosravi, depicting hair in her paintings has become charged with emotion. She posted a video on Instagram in early October that showed her sweeping a paintbrush across the ...

A new exhibition at the Muscarelle Museum of Art spotlights influential women in Abstract Expressionism, presenting nearly 50 ...

Carroll Dunham’s recent paintings are a dark comment on the tradition of the idyll, which goes back a long way in painting, and includes such modernist highpoints as Paul Gauguin’s “The Seed of the ...

The website for The Reader, designed by Oliver Wise (screenshot via the Kadist Art Foundation by the author for Hyperallergic) The Reader also brings together many additional paintings of female ...

The late artist Gogi Saroj Pal fused the female form with Kamdhenu, reimagined Pahari nayikas as self-adoring, not waiting ...

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Wearing gold-sequined Uggs, a bright smile and flawless brown skin that belies her 82 years, Faith Ringgold explains her “confrontational art” _ vivid paintings whose themes of race, ...

Conservators in London, England used infrared and X-ray imaging to reveal a never-before-seen portrait of a woman beneath a popular painting by renowned artist Pablo Picasso. The Courtauld Institute ...

When it comes to handling gender rights, artist, Oluwafunke Saka’s works and themes fall between the lines of intellectual articulation and emotional entitlement. Her paintings highlight social, ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors ...

Contemporary art is powerful vehicle for communicating values, challenging reality, and understanding the times we live in, ...

"Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money," the institute explained The Courtauld/Facebook Historians recently made an unexpected discovery while examining one ...