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Tag: Women artists

Do the seemingly endless doorways represent a woman trapped in domesticity or infinite ways out? Philadelphia Museum of Art

How Dorothea Tanning’s ‘Birthday’ painting challenged male-dominated surrealism

Sally Jane Brown, West Virginia University When American artist Dorothea Tanning painted “Birthday” in 1942, she announced her arrival...
‘Atlases,’ Victoria Lomasko’s mural at Miami University. Used by permission of Victoria Lomasko

An artist traces her choices under Putin’s Russia – from resistance...

Stephen Norris, Miami University Victoria Lomasko, a graphic artist and muralist, has spent her career documenting how authoritarianism took...

A half-century before the hashtag, artists were on the front lines...

Vivien G. Fryd, Vanderbilt University The #MeToo movement has had a sweeping effect on politics, organized religion, educational institutions, Hollywood, sports and the military. The cultural...

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