Nell Gwyn: Actress & Royal Mistress
How did a lowly orange seller become the most famous actress of her time, mistress of King Charles II? In 1660, King Charles II ruled that female stage roles must…
Art and Ephemera Once Owned by Pioneering Artist Mary Beth Edelson Discarded on the Street in SoHo
The purge of material, including works on paper, was organized by her son, Nick Edelson. Some who came to take items criticized the disposal.
Judy Pfaff in “Romance” – Season 4 – “Art in the Twenty-First Century” | Art21
"Romance" premiered in October 2007 on PBS. Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-making, Judy Pfaff creates exuberant, sprawling sculptures and installations that weave landscape, architecture, and synthetic color into a…
The Great Women Artists Podcast – Elif Shafak on storytelling in art
In this episode, we talk about the power of storytelling, the importance of writing women's lives into history and fighting for their rights. Shafak has said: "…as a young Turkish…
The Great Women Artists Podcast: Marina Warner on Eve, Lilith, Athena, Medusa
A writer, lecturer, author of almost 40 books, and former president of the Royal Society of Literature, Marina Warner, according to the New Yorker, is an authority on things that…
A woman’s greatest enemy? A lack of time to herself
If what it takes to create are long stretches of time alone, that’s something women have never had the luxury to expect {read}
Here I Am, Luchita Hurtado — Art21
Luchita Hurtado reflects on her eight-decade-long career and the relationship between the human body and the natural world that is embedded in her work. In her Santa Monica studio, Hurtado…
Leonora Carrington Rewrote the Surrealist Narrative for Women
In one of Carrington’s earliest stories, “The Debutante,” a young woman who does not want to go to a ball switches places with a hyena. The débutante allows her maid…
A Chat With Mimi Pond on the Service Industry, Cocaine, and Writing the First Episode of The Simpsons
In the early 1980s, Mimi Pond’s work was everywhere. The cartoonist and illustrator was regularly published in The National Lampoon, The Village Voice, The New York Times, and Seventeen magazines;…