Articles about Art
From riots to riot grrrl: Heavens to Betsy revisited
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
Cazz Blase // 5 October 2011
A family portrait, without sentimentality
Alice Neel's portraits of pregnant women, mothers and children, undercut the romanticisation of motherhood, argues Sarah Blake
Sarah Blake // 25 September 2010
Categories: Art
Quilts at the V&A
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
Tamasine Pottle // 19 May 2010
Categories: Art
Women artists and Surrealism
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
Sue Gilbert // 11 May 2010
Categories: Art
Demystifying the 'feminine'
Seven artists explore femininity and domesticity in At Home at the Rollo Gallery. Itala Attieh has more
Itala Attieh // 12 April 2010
Categories: Art
Women's art in Paris: elles@centrepompidou
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
Sue Gilbert // 17 December 2009
Categories: Art
Mysteries of the Iconographies
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
Kaite Welsh // 4 October 2009
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Sexuality and sainthood
Cranach painted Venus to titillate Luther's contemporaries and chaste virgins aimed at keeping women in check, argues Itala Atteih
Itala Attieh // 8 May 2008
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