Ever-so brilliant women on never giving up
In a week when I’ve been feeling quite despondent about how women are viewed, and how our success in the world is measured (prompted largely by the goings-on in parliament…), Booker...
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Must-see exhibition: Charlotte Perriand at the Design Museum
At last we have a chance to see a major retrospective of the work of the interior architect and furniture designer Charlotte Perriand (1903 to 1999). A Parisian of modest background she joined the Ate...
Artist Chila Kumari Burman is lighting up London
Talk about coincidence. I was a guest on Woman’s Hour last week (promise not to mention it many more times), and while I waited for my section I listened to Chila Kumari Burman talking about her...
Boutique Of The Week: Molesworth & Bird
Though often mistaken for watercolour paintings, Molesworth & Bird’s designs are actually made from pressed, foraged seaweed found washed up in rock pools on the south west coast. Old...
Dora Maar and Kara Walker two women artists to see at Tate Modern
According to the Financial Times, ‘ 2020 promises a revolution for women in art.’ Hooray.
Kiki Smith: an artist at the top of her game
Kiki Smith is a New York-based artist whose oeuvre moves from photographs, to drawings, to printmaking to small sculptures and most impressively since 2012 to large scale tapestries. If you want to se...
Last chance to see the Faith Ringgold exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery
Here’s a true story with a happy outcome. The artist, activist and children’s author Faith Ringgold is having a solo retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, her first in Europe.
Lee Krasner: Living Colour at the Barbican
The fact that female artists are undervalued and underrepresented in the art world is no new phenomenon, but thankfully the situation is finally changing. Two of the most popular exhibitions la...
Don’t miss Magdalene Odundo ‘The Journey of Things’ at the Hepworth Wakefield
I’m due a trip up north and hoping that there’ll be time to cross the Pennines and visit friends in Wakefield. As well as a walk in the glorious Yorkshire Sculpture Park, world-reno...
Must-see: Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern
The curators at Tate Modern are to be congratulated for another exhibition in the main temporary gallery space dedicated to a gifted female artist. For the past decade or so the work of Louise ...
Creative Women at Work: Claire Brewster gets back to nature at London Art Fair
Claire Brewster’s artwork is influenced by the British countryside and nature, ‘ I’m endlessly fascinated by nature,’ says the 50-and-a-half-year-old, ‘where we humans ne...
Don’t miss this: Anni Albers at Tate Modern
Under the Director of Tate, Maria Balshaw and the Director of Tate Modern, Frances Morris, more prominence is being given to female artists. First Sonia Delaunay and now Anni Albers, both texti...