The power of writing your own music as a female artist

The significant contributions of female artists have often been overshadowed by their male counterparts. The Contemporary Art Online auction presents exceptional artworks from the Abstract Expressionist, Assemblage, Photo Realist and...

NOW YOU SEE ME, Sotheby’s groundbreaking private selling exhibition, brings together paintings and sculpture by ten of the most original and influential female artists of the 20th century. Spanning more than 100 years of creative output...

MOT 1953: DECORATIONS FOR CORONATION: Female artists, artisans using silk screen process to transfer design onto fabric for banners, Wales dragon, British Crown, MS Silk screened crown on fabric.

Mexican artist and activist, Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon was born July 6 1907. Stricken with polio at a young age, she wants to become a doctor, but her dream is shattered when a bus accident nearly takes her life. While...

Frida Kahlo is the most famous female artist in history. She deviated from the traditional portrayal of female beauty in art, and instead chose to paint raw and honest experiences. A near fatal bus accident at 18 left Frida crippled and...

Filmmaker Jenn Nkiru showcases some of the female artists on display in the Tate Collection to celebrate International Women’s Day in her short film featuring Zinzi Minott. Over 100 women artists are on display at the Tate. Come and find...

Mary Cassatt is a great American Experessinist painting who lived in France. This is the story of how she played with the tropes of female representation in her work.

Yayoi Kusama lives in a psychiatric institution, which she entered voluntarily in 1977. She is now in her nineties and still works every single day. Known for her repeated dot patterns, her work has been marked with obsessiveness and a...

Abstract Expressionism would emerge from a post-war mood of anxiety and trauma. These were artists who, like the surrealists before them had a profound interest in the unconscious mind. They produced work that may have been abstract...

Women were excluded from almost all cultural and social resources in the centuries from 1400 to 1900 when so much of the world's great art was created. And visual art was almost entirely a male industry before modern times. Having an...

Mexican artist and activist, Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderon was born July 6 1907. Stricken with polio at a young age, she wants to become a doctor, but her dream is shattered when a bus accident nearly takes her life. While...

Explore Noga Erez's journey as an artist using music to navigate and discuss political landscapes and gender dynamics in Israel.

Sandro Botticelli’s poetic sense of beauty captivated the Florentine court. But it was his subject matter which distinguished him from other artists. He was one of the first western artist since classical times to depict non-religious...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century born on the 20th March 1915 in Arkansas, U.S. She was a talented singer, songwriter, and recording artist who attained popularity in the 1930s and...

Click the links below to jump to your favourite author: 3:01 Sophie Mackintosh 8:16 Deborah Smith 25:32 Bridget Minamore 43:33 Abi Andrews 55:35 Deborah Levy Literary journal Five Dials are marking International Women’s Day 2018 with The...

Judy Chicago is an artist and author. To tie in with the 50th anniversary of the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Chicago has created a mural on the walls of the Grail Silo in Liverpool which responds to the lyrics of...

The Vorticist movement had two female members, Helen Saunders and Jessica Dismorr, while Dorothy Shakespear was an unofficial member. In this film, Biddy Peppin, art historian and a relative of Helen Saunders, tells us the story of the...

Ice age sculptures of the female form depict women in every stage of their lives, and do not simply conform to the traditional "male gaze". Curator Jill Cook contrasts the posture and gaze of these female forms with classical depictions...

Wadjda: Haifaa al Mansour on becoming Saudi Arabia's first female feature film director Subscribe to the Guardian HEREref='http://bitly.com/UvkFpD' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>HERE Wadjda director Haifaa al Mansour talks to Xan...

In discussing her work, Jenny Saville stated “the history of art has been dominated by men, living in ivory towers, seeing women as sexual objects. I paint women as most women see themselves.” In this episode of Expert Voices, Senior...

Aletta Collins creates an exciting new work set to music by David Sawer. She explains, 'the personal challenge I wanted to take on this was to work en pointe. I decided that I'd like to then just work with women.' Blue Moon features...

This January, Sotheby’s celebrates trailblazing female artists from the 16th through the 19th century with The Female Triumphant, a group of exceptional works of art that will offered in our Masters Week sales. In spite of extraordinary...

This January, Sotheby’s celebrates trailblazing female artists from the 16th through the 19th century with The Female Triumphant, a group of exceptional works of art that will be offered in our Masters Week sales. In spite of...