In 2024, art collector Christian Levett opened Europe’s first museum dedicated to women artists in a little town in the south of France. But for those of us who can’t make the trip to the Femmes ...

This month, throughout the spring, and continuing all year at museums across America, great women abstract artists of today, and their predecessors, receive a hard earned spotlight. Women have never ...

Grace Hartigan, Cedar Bar, 1951. Oil on canvas, 39 x 31 ¾ in. Courtesy of Grace Hartigan Estate, The Levett Collection, and FAMM. Photo: Fraser Marr “We’re not writing them back into history,” ...

Abstract art has traditionally been dominated by men, but female abstractionists have often been the trailblazers, as a new show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts makes abundantly clear.

From the May 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In 1949, the artist Robert Motherwell (1915–91) coined the phrase ‘New York School’. The term Abstract Expressionism seemed too narrow ...

I won’t be getting to Denver to see the exhibition Women of Abstract Expressionism, curated by Gwen F. Chanzit, and chances are I won’t be getting to Charlotte or Palm Springs to see its subsequent ...

HEY. GOOD MORNING, I’M ALEX DURHAM. TODAY I’M JOINED BY TYLER BLACKWELL. HE’S HERE WITH THE SPEED. SO WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THE ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST EXHIBIT. TALK TO ME ABOUT EXACTLY WHAT THIS IS.