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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Liza Yukhnyova, an artist from Saint Petersburg in Russia, recreates famous paintings and classic masterpieces every single ...

Conservators in London, England used infrared and X-ray imaging to reveal a never-before-seen portrait of a woman beneath a popular painting by renowned artist Pablo Picasso. The Courtauld Institute ...

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, ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Four paintings by one of Britain's leading suffragettes, Sylvia Pankhurst, documenting the conditions of female workers in the early 20th century, have been ...

For Valentine’s Day, we asked five of our academic experts to tell us about the most romantic artwork they’ve ever encountered. From first dates to sleeping lovers, these are the paintings that have ...

Her smile is menacing, eyes glinting out from the canvas maniacally. Her teeth…somehow too toothy. The woman is naked, a breast bared. Her long red hair falls down her body limply. Looking at the ...

Alberto Penagos is a 26-year-old Mexican painter who never formally studied art, but enjoyed drawing since early childhood. In 2007, after working with Mexican painter Rafael Cauduro on a mural ...

"Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money," the institute explained The Courtauld/Facebook Historians recently made an unexpected discovery while examining one ...