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Shirley Gorelick, Frida Kahlo (1976), from The Sister Chapel. Photo: Karen Mauch Photography, © Shirley Gorelick Foundation; Rowan University Art Gallery, gift of Jamie S. Gorelick. A major feminist art installation from 1978 is about to be resurrected...

JUDY Chicago, an artist, writer and activist whose work set the agenda for women’s art over the past five decades, will be exhibiting in the UK for the first time since 1985. As well as Voices from The Song of Songs, a series of six paired prints with...

The Brooklyn Museum, with the 2004 Polshek Partnership Architects glass pavilion addition in front (photo by Barney Bishop/Flickr) Last September, Arnold Lehman announced that he would retire from his position as the director of the Brooklyn Museum...

Why do college students take, or fail to take, black studies courses? Looking back on their educations, how do they feel about their choices? The correspondence that follows covers the range of responses that Atlantic readers offered to those questions...

The best known artists throughout history such as Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Monet are all men. The feminist art movement of the 1960s and 70s however, finally gave women artists  a voice. The world could finally see some of the great art they were...