For Iranian artist Arghavan Khosravi, depicting hair in her paintings has become charged with emotion. She posted a video on Instagram in early October that showed her sweeping a paintbrush across the ...

The website for The Reader, designed by Oliver Wise (screenshot via the Kadist Art Foundation by the author for Hyperallergic) The Reader also brings together many additional paintings of female ...

Falls Church Arts is currently presenting an exhibition of “Women Artists of the DMV.” Other than this overriding theme, the ...

A portrait of a mystery woman was found beneath Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

Elizabeth Okie Paxton, "The Breakfast Tray" (c. 1910), oil on canvas, 21 x 17 inches (all images courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington) The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, has ...

Mai Trung Thu’s painting “Le Concert” (The Concert) of five women playing music fetched the highest price in an auction held in the French capital Paris Tuesday. The "Hommage à l'Art Moderne ...

Long beloved in her own country, the painter receives a revelatory overview in New York with an exhibition ranging from her development in the 1880s to the end of her life in the 1940s.

When it comes to handling gender rights, artist, Oluwafunke Saka’s works and themes fall between the lines of intellectual articulation and emotional entitlement. Her paintings highlight social, ...

Contemporary art is powerful vehicle for communicating values, challenging reality, and understanding the times we live in, ...