Few people probably know the female songwriters featured in this article, yet Motown relied heavily upon their contributions to cement its place in music history.
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This toxic social media trend proves how – even today – women are punished and pathologised for simply being less than perfect.
By centring her own experience in her work, Emin also humanises and universalises it.
Around a familiar outdoor table, Black Light at Malthouse Theatre tells an intergenerational story of four First Nations women.
In A Woman’s Eye, Her Art, Drusilla Modjeska unpacks how the once-forgotten women artists of the early 20th century continue to inspire today.
The artist’s 1942 painting ‘Birthday’ will be on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s upcoming ‘Dreamworld: Surrealism at 100’ exhibition.
Excluded from a male-dominated art world, women artists in early 20th-century London pioneered their own social networks.
Artists and arts workers are facing financial stress, gender pay gaps, long hours and unstable work – with many leaving the sector as a result.
Graphic artist Victoria Lomasko’s journey highlights how censorship has intensified in Russia.
Modern artworks are strikingly introduced into the carefully preserved spaces of Freud’s former home.
The exhibition brings together legions of courageous women who made political works of art about their lives to tell the story of the feminist movements of the 1970s and the 1980s.
Acts of Creation is an incisive look at over 100 women artists who have created art representing their lived experiences of mothering and care-giving, from joy and grief to ambivalence.
A ‘childish’ prank that will ‘harm’ MONA? Hardly. The world loves an art forger – and now they have a female star.
This is a rare opportunity to see works by female artists that depict the landscape in a multitude of ways.
A comprehensive show foregrounding the work of mostly lesser-known female artists.
Colonial settlers made myriad objects with problematic portrayals of First Nations people. Now, a number of artists are using these objects in their work to retell these stories.
Notwithstanding the proliferation of exhibitions devoted to women, the question that feminists asked in the 1980s is more relevant than ever.
Abramović’s foray into the wellness industry is not particularly surprising. As of 2024, she positions herself as an artist-life-coach.
We had no government funding, no governing structure and no workshop. Yet we produced a huge range of political posters, many of which are now in national collections and have been exhibited often.
Any policy interventions from Creative Australia to support visual and craft artists’ incomes will need to take a sector-wide approach.
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