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What does it mean to be a woman in art? With shifting political landscapes and women's marches happening around the world, how are women artists addressing their rights and identities, in their work and beyond?
According to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 51 per cent of visual artists today are women. But when it comes to exhibitions and gallery representation, the numbers tell a less optimistic story.
Spanning 400 years, this exhibition follows women on their journeys to becoming professional artists. From Tudor times to the First World War, artists such as Mary Beale, Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight paved a new artistic path for generations of women.
May 28, 2024 · Tate Britain’s Now You See Us could be the most important exhibition you’ll ever see. Spanning 400 hundred years, this overview of women artists in Britain destroys the myth that female talent is an exotic anomaly.
May 22, 2024 · Black is one of the more than 100 female artists featured in Tate Britain’s revelatory exhibition, “Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920”, and while her story may be more unedifying than most, few of her peers had it easy.
- Michael Prodger
Jul 24, 2024 · Martha Darley Mutrie, Wild Flowers at the Corner of a Cornfield, 1855-60. Photo: Tate (Seraphina Neville). In 1976, Sutherland Harris and Nochlin curated a hugely significant exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), entitled Women Artists: 1550-1950.
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Jan 15, 2024 · This ambitious group show will chart women’s road to being recognised as professional artists, a 400-year journey which paved the way for future generations and established what it meant to be a woman in the British art world.