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We’re finally getting stories about women who want to be more than mothers. So why does A Family Affair leave us so dissatisfied?
Lounge creator and artist Kirsha Kaechle said the lounge was being ‘experienced’ by men exactly as intended – by excluding them.
Any policy interventions from Creative Australia to support visual and craft artists’ incomes will need to take a sector-wide approach.
Neel’s attention to the sensuous human subject, irrespective but mindful of race, gender, status and sexuality, was rare and undervalued, yet now seems prophetic.
A round up of some fascinating art tomes published this year, with a strong showing on women artists.
Despite her extensive and versatile oeuvre, Blankenhorn has received limited attention from the art world.
Only 7% of rakugo artists are female, but Katsura Niyō just won one of Japan’s highest honours for emerging rakugo artists.
50 years ago Art News published Linda Nochlin’s essay, Why have there been no great women artists? It would change how we see art and its institutions, and still reverberates today.
Christine de Pizan’s 15th-century feminist narrative has particular resonance today.
Small signs, big questions and a fabulous wardrobe. How the world’s most famous doll is calling out art’s deeply entrenched male bias.
Dorrit Black, Grace Cossington Smith and Grace Crowley were some of many talented modernist women artists. But only with the advent of second wave feminism in the 1970s was their work properly acknowledged.
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor in Art History, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Japanese, University of Sydney
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Research Assistant, RMIT University
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Associate Professor, School of Art, RMIT University
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Lecturer in English, University of Canterbury
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Associate Professor/Reader in Economics, The University of Melbourne
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PhD candidate in the History of Art, University of York
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Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Professional Development, University of Huddersfield
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Professor of Art and Associate Dean, Research and Innovation, School of Art, RMIT University
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Sessional Academic in Creative Writing, The University of Queensland