Since taking power in August 2021, the Taliban has banned sports for Afghan female athletes as part of an escalating campaign of restrictions that have hindered daily life for women. Fearing reprisals ...

Dreweatts Auction House in London will offer a work by Joan Carlile, widely believed to be the first female portrait painter active in Britain during the 17th century, at its Old Master, British, and ...

Sue Roe explores the agency and victories her subjects experienced as women who, we are repeatedly reminded, ardently loved ...

It’s arguably the most famous painting in the world, and it’s shrouded in mystery. Most notably, the identity of the woman pictured in Leonardo da Vinci’s painting known as the Mona Lisa isn’t ...

Art is my life.” That’s how artist Zulf describes his relationship with art. The London-based artist creates masterpieces on ...

Time was when Rachel Portesi did much of her photography using Polaroid film. She loved the immediacy of the image, the way each photo was different and often didn’t quite match what her eye had seen, ...

Hamida Ouali pointed at a painting of herself wearing a green dress that is traditional among the Amazigh, the North African ethnic group to which she belongs, and made a decision. "I like it," she ...

ROXBURY - More than 200 portrait banners now line Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury. Their faces tell the story of Black female leaders in Boston. "People understand and talk about Irish Boston, Italian ...

The theme of Portraits of Women is violence against women and girls. The exhibition includes two components: Congo/Women: Portraits of War and Women on the Frontline. Congo/Women: Portraits of War ...

Growing up in the Midwest, Tiffany J. Sutton found herself in predominantly white spaces. She began photographing Black women as a way of reconnecting to a part of her culture that she felt was ...

Awatif Zakariya Ahmad crossed into Chad on September 20, 2024, her five children in tow. All their belongings were in a bag she balanced on her head and a smaller one in her hand. They had traveled ...