HuffPost Arts&Culture is celebrating Women's History Month with the help of our favorite artists -- female artists, of course. Every day of March we'r...
HuffPost Arts&Culture is celebrating Women's History Month with the help of our favorite artists -- female artists, of course. Every day of March we'r...
Kathleen Hanna and Kathi Wilcox have been friends since the two played in Bikini Kill, the riot grrl band that took the '90s by storm. Twenty years la...
HuffPost Arts&Culture is celebrating Women's History Month with the help of our favorite artists -- female artists, of course. Every day of March we'r...
HuffPost Arts&Culture is celebrating Women's History Month with the help of our favorite artists -- female artists, of course. Every day of March we'r...
Since the early 1970s, Catalan artist Eulàlia Grau has been a formidable force in the avante-garde tradition of collage. Using manipulated photograph...
When considering torture and terror, the first question of relevance is, Do we require an experience of torture and terror first hand, either as a survivor or as a witness, to be credible on the subject?
Perhaps my favorite aspect of Mama (aside from the fact that it made me very, very afraid) is that it paints a refreshingly complicated and ultimately poignant portrait of female relationships.
Although art galleries past and present have showcased more than their fair share of nudes, most bodies in the buff adhere to the strict ideals of bea...
The pioneers of feminist performance art from 1965-1975 used the female body to strive for authenticity, in art and in life. Dancer/choreographer Anne...
As far as badass female artists go, they don't get much better than Käthe Kollwitz. An upcoming exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum will present 13 rar...
Making things out of yarn used to be the realm of grannies, but fiber arts have evolved in the past few decades into a cutting-edge discipline.
The project delivers a new paradigm of life/death/rebirth cycle into the avant-garde, marrying the organic and ephemeral that once limited the archival potential of feminist art into the masculine realm of digital technology.
Soon one begins to take in not just the lurid parade of phalluses seen everywhere but the host of Karen Black-styled dolls posed within and around them in various mis-en-scene.
Louise Fishman may be the first artist we've ever heard of to grow up with dreams of playing basketball. Eventually, she swapped one boys' club for an...
Miriam Cahn is known to create works crawling on her hands and knees, sometimes naked and sometimes with her eyes closed. Performance and product blee...
Marina Abramović has repeatedly said that she is not a feminist. I think that Marina's declarations only mean that she is not a feminist activist, not that she does not believe in women's rights, and I think that that could be seen as a queer statement.
Jenny Saville is one of the most captivating painters of human flesh. Whether taking on a fair-skinned child, a burn victim or a corpse she renders he...
Some of the world's heaviest thinkers on faith and history infuse this topic with a gravitas worthy of all the effort. The question is which flavor of Mary Magdalene you like best.
Stephanie Washburn's "television drawings" are not drawings at all, but painterly photographs of a mediated TV screen. Although they look more like an...
Yesterday 15 women were honored at the fifth anniversary of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The "firstees," a...
In her first comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany, "Do You Want Me To Draw You A Diagram", artist Kaucyila Brooke uses humor to infiltrate rigid c...
We need to acknowledge that women artists have made an impact in the art world and paved the way for newer generations because of their high quality work, not just because they are women.
While pop culture makes the 80s out to be all bad perms, neon, and saccharine pop songs, on a deeper level this was a profoundly transformative decade...
