Contemporary UK feminism. http://www.thefword.org.uk/ Movable Type http://www.thefword.org.uk/images/logo2003.gif 2011-10-05T10:16:10Z

Are you a fan of Heavens to Betsy or riot grrrl? Artist Katie Hare has put together a sound and video installation based on the seminal band's 1993 album Calculated, to appear in London on 14-16 October. Cazz Blase reports

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2011/10/preview_Hare_Calculated 2011-10-05T10:16:10Z 2011-10-05T09:36:36Z Cazz Blase

Alice Neel's portraits of pregnant women, mothers and children, undercut the romanticisation of motherhood, argues Sarah Blake

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/09/a_family_portra 2010-09-25T13:55:54Z 2010-09-25T11:39:33Z Sarah Blake

An exhibition at the Victoria & Albert museum puts the spotlight on quilting, and by extension on the unsung domestic history of women, says Tamasine Pottle

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/05/stitching_toget 2010-05-19T23:00:36Z 2010-05-19T18:37:46Z Tamasine Pottle

Women have largely been painted out of popular understandings of the Surrealist movement. Susan Gilbert reviews a Manchester Art Gallery exhibition which showcased some of these ignored works

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/05/angels_of_anarc 2010-07-12T11:01:56Z 2010-05-11T20:56:14Z Sue Gilbert

Seven artists explore femininity and domesticity in At Home at the Rollo Gallery. Itala Attieh has more

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/04/demystifying_th 2010-04-12T19:02:05Z 2010-04-12T18:08:43Z Itala Attieh

Susan Gilbert takes us on a tour of the Pompidou Centre's groundbreaking rehanging of its collection to showcase the last 100 years of art through work by women

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/12/women_hung_in_p 2009-12-18T12:25:50Z 2009-12-17T19:47:11Z Sue Gilbert

Artist Carolee Schneemann may be best-known for 'Interior Scroll', in which she read from a scroll she extracted from her vagina. But, at 70, her influence stretches far beyond that one famous performance piece. Kaite Welsh attended her recent lecture at the Tate Liverpool

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/10/for_the_past_50 2009-10-04T22:22:46Z 2009-10-04T21:50:12Z Kaite Welsh http://www.kaitewelsh.com/

Cranach painted Venus to titillate Luther's contemporaries and chaste virgins aimed at keeping women in check, argues Itala Atteih

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/05/sexuality_and_s 2008-05-09T11:56:12Z 2008-05-08T22:28:32Z Itala Attieh