Who knew an ungloved hand could be so scandalous?
| Who knew an ungloved hand could be so scandalous? Today in books, Bridget Quinn looks at the subtle radicalism of paintings, often portraits, by women in 1880s Denmark. Read her piece on the modernists who walked so future artists could run. Meanwhile, Julie Schneider considers a show on women’s everyday clothing over two centuries, and Julia Curl questions whether an exhibition of photographs of workers and American labor movements does its subject justice. More in this edition, as always, including a cosmological Grand Central mosaic by a collective inspired by Hilma af Klint and the latest target of anti-nipple conservatives: the Virginia state flag. — Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Associate Editor | | |
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| | A new book invites us into the tight-knit circle of women modernists in late-19th-century Denmark through quietly subversive gestures; you’ll never look at a glove the same way again. | Bridget Quinn |
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LATEST NEWS | | | A new NYC subway mosaic designed by Hilma’s Ghost draws from tarot archetypes and hero myths to honor the journeys commuters embark on every day. Nick Cave’s "Amalgam (Origin)” will join works by the likes of Auguste Rodin and Louise Bourgeois at the Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Michigan. A school district in Texas has removed a lesson on Virginia history due to the presence of a singular exposed breast on the latter state’s official flag. |
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PEOPLE, POWER, POLITICS | | | An exhibition shows that our beleaguered present is not apocalyptically singular but the continuation of one long, long fight. | Julia Curl |
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| | | Real Clothes, Real Lives shows that women have adapted their attire to accommodate their daily activities with resourcefulness and panache. | Julie Schneider |
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| | | Poetics of Power, grounded in feminist critique, imagines a world free from militarized, male-dominated spheres of power and opposed to all forms of exploitation. | Andrea Scrima |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | Concise, pithy, and accessible, Susie Hodge’s The Short Story of Women Artists introduces readers to artists forgotten and obscured, many of whom are now rightly being reassessed. | Lydia Pyne |
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IN MEMORIAM | | Lawrence Brose (1951–2025)
Experimental film artist and curator | Buffalo Spree
Chuck Connelly (1955–2025)
Neo-expressionist artist | New York Times
Joseph Csatari (1929–2025)
Realist painter and Boy Scouts of America’s official artist | Scouting Magazine
Eunice Golden (1927–2025)
Feminist painter of male nudes | New York Times
Leoma Lovegrove (1952–2025)
Southwest Florida painter | Pine Island Eagle
Danny Meza (1990–2025)
California muralist and tattoo artist | Santa Barbara Independent
Gretchen Dow Simpson (1939–2025)
Painter and New Yorker cover illustrator | Providence Journal
Zurab Tsereteli (1934–2025)
Georgian-Russian sculptor, painter, and architect | BBC
Guy Ullens (1935–2025)
Belgian collector of Chinese art | Art Newspaper |
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