The surrealist collages of Eileen Agar turn the British coast into a shifting theatre of shells, stones, feathers, rope, photographs and found fragments. Her…
Carolee Schneemann transformed the body from an object represented by art into an active medium of artistic thought. Across painting, film, installation and…
Ana Mendieta worked in the margins between drawing, ritual, and weather. Between 1972 and 1985 she produced work that conflated the female form with soil,…
Vivian Maier’s photographs turn ordinary streets into places of quiet discovery. A woman pauses beside a shop window, a child stares directly into the lens, or…
Käthe Kollwitz never warmed a wall with celebration. From her studio in working-class Prenzlauer Berg, she sketched mothers counting pennies, weavers with…
The painter Anna Ancher spent nearly her entire life in the small fishing village of Skagen, at the northernmost tip of Denmark, and almost all of her most…
The 1920s announced itself in New York as a vertical theatre of glass, neon, and perpetual motion. Few artists caught that pulse as vividly as Florine…
Romaine Brooks painted women who seemed to occupy a space beyond the decorative expectations of their time. Her sitters wear tailored jackets, riding clothes,…
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is often remembered through its luminous women: red-haired figures reclining beside rivers, pale faces framed by roses, and…
Yayoi Kusama’s infinity rooms turn looking into an encounter with scale, repetition and uncertainty. Inside mirrored chambers filled with lights, water, dots…
