The Bennett Prize, the largest art award offered to women working in the field of figurative painting, announced its winning ...

An exhibition in Cambridge, England uses contemporary portraits to give a face to prominent Black rebels and abolitionists of ...

ECAM Forum 2025 to showcase 15 female-directed projects in Madrid, showcasing Spanish and international co-productions across ...

A pair of 1,500-year-old lady's sandals with a message in Greek was discovered during a dig in Constantinople, today's ...

There, she prayed on her knees before a painting of the Virgin Mary, beseeching God for the grace to enter the Carmelite ...

The Courant’s arts picks for May 18-24 include a blues challenge, a tribute to a guitar legend, a horror rocker and some ...

Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei ...

Speculation had been swirling around Miss January (1997) by the 71-year-old South African painter Marlene Dumas in the weeks ...

Berthe Morisot was an outstanding Impressionist, admired by her male colleagues such as Degas and Renoir. As a woman of her ...

A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. “Miss January” is Dumas’ “magnum opus” and stands 9.25 feet (2.

The South African artist Marlene Dumas has claimed the auction record for a living female artist. Her 1997 painting, Miss ...