Using art to reimagine peace

IN a quiet corner of a children's art exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, 15-year-old Koon Yan Ying stands confidently beside her ...
The Arts Desk

Kerry James Marshall: The Histories, Royal Academy review - a triumphant celebration of blackness

This must be the first time a black artist has been honoured with a retrospective that fills the main galleries of the Royal Academy. Celebrating Kerry James Marshall’s 70th birthday, The Histories ...

No Woman Could Have Painted This, They Said. They Were Wrong.

For years, Michaelina Wautier’s paintings were attributed to men. Then a chance discovery in a Vienna museum helped bring the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This 17th-Century Female Artist Was Once a Bigger Star Than Rembrandt. Why Did History Forget About Johanna Koerten and Her Peers?

A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between ...