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Tag: Art History

Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan at the Royal Academy

19th May 202221st May 2022  Julia Bagguley

The Royal Academy’s latest exhibition, Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan, uses paintings, drawings and sketchbooks to shine a light on the woman behind the muse, the business manager and companion behind the model.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Art History, Gustave Courbet, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Joanna Hiffernan, John Everett Millais, Julia Bagguley, painting, Royal Academy, Women in the Arts

Drawn into Being: the drawings of Louise Bourgeois and Jean Frémon’s Nativity

22nd December 202023rd December 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

In this creative ‘Christmas’ essay, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou reflects on the power and therapeutic potential of drawing in her own life, the artistic practise of Louise Bourgeois, and Jean Frémon’s new text Nativity (Les Fugitives).

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Ann Coxon, art, Art History, art therapy, Artist, Books in translation, Christmas, Cole Swensen, creativity, drawing, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou, Jean Frémon, John Berger, Languages, Les Fugitives, Louise Bourgeois, Lucy Lippard, Motherhood, Nativity, portraiture, pregnancy, Translation, unconscious

Artemisia at the National Gallery, London

1st November 20201st November 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

The National Gallery’s blockbuster exhibition celebrates the professional ingenuity, self-confidence and skilful proto-feminist paintings of one of Italy’s best Early Modern women artists, Artemisia Gentileschi.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Alexandra Lapierre, Art History, Artemisia, Artemisia Gentileschi, Baroque, exhibition, Italian Baroque Art, Italian painting, Letizia Treves, Mary Garrard, National Gallery, Nina Houle, painting, Renaissance, Simon Vouet, Sistine Chapel

Postcards in Isolation 8: Guerrilla Girls, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, 1988

13th June 202020th June 2020  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie reflects on the seminal work, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, 1988, by Guerrilla Girls, and calls for women in the art world to be more politically engaged and active in their practise.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Art History, Charlotte Burns, Feminism, Gaby Porter, Guerrilla Girls, Julia Halpern, Linda Nochlin, Lockdown Living, Louise Bourgeois, Lucy Steggals, National Portrait Gallery, Postcards in Isolation, Tate

Here to make trouble: Alice Procter’s The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums and why we need to talk about it

26th March 202027th March 2020  Sumaya Kassim

In Alice Procter’s new book, The Whole Picture, Sumaya Kassim finds a smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see the problematic colonial histories behind them.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, BooksTagged: Alice Procter, Art History, CLR James, Kara Walker, Michael Parekowhai, Michael Rakowitz, Museums, Sumaya Kassim, Tania Brugera, The Black Jacobins, The Whole Picture, Uncomfortable Art Tours
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