A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between 1600 and 1750, including Koerten, Judith Leyster and Clara Peeters Meilan ...

"El sueño (La cama)" became the most expensive piece of art by a woman when sold at Sotheby's in New York. - Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become the most ...

In 2024 Southern Illinois University, along with the Sharp Museum, hosted an exhibit called Women’s Voices. These are stories from some of the featured artists. Documentaries is available to stream on ...

A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is expected to break records when it goes up for auction in New York this week. The surrealist painting, being sold on November 20 by a private collector, ...

Lavinia Fontana definitely lived her best life. She defied gender norms to become the breadwinner of her family, she fielded numerous pleas for portraits from noblewomen, and she inserted dogs—a ...

A detail of Artist Nelson Shanks painting, The Four Justices , a 9-foot 6-inch by 7-foot 9-inch oil on canvas portrait of the first four female justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, top row, from left, ...

AGO researchers have identified an anonymous 18th-century portrait sitter as Eleonora Susette, an enslaved woman. Multidisciplinary research traced her origins to Dutch-controlled Guyana and linked ...

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction. The painting of Kahlo asleep in a ...

Mexican painter Frida Kahlo became the most expensive female artist at auction on Thursday when Sotheby’s in New York sold her sleeping self-portrait for $54.7 million. The 1940 canvas, “The Dream ...

A self-portrait by celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said. The ...

The Frida Kahlo self-portrait “El sueño (La cama)” shattered the auction record for a work by a female artist, selling for $55 million at Sotheby’s Thursday. The sale “shows just how far we have come, ...