Died (alas!) on this day in 1631, in Madrid, still-life painter Juan van der Hamen y León. He was 34. Here, deceptively simple arrangement of sweets and pottery from 1627.

Faith Ringgold protested for inclusion, brought what used to be thought of as domestic art to museums and inspired generations. "I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man" #WomensHistoryMonth

Alejandro Iñárritu's "Sueño Perro" at LACMA had me thinking about the physical weight of film at a time in which a "movie" might be pixels you rearrange on your cell phone. 🎥 I review the show on @nprfreshair.bsky.social: www.npr.org/2026/03/26/n...

Finished the alphabet, and it's still #WomensHistoryMonth, so here's to the great Judy Chicago and her Dinner Party, which heralds the achievements of 1038 extraordinary women. 39 place settings and 999 names on individual tiles on the floor. If you haven't seen it, try!

Pennsylvania Academy,1882, female students were not allowed a nude human model to improve anatomical knowledge in a modelling, sculpture class, so were given a cow #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

Anne Zahalka 🇦🇺 Photo media artist

He's correct. It's brilliant.

Mary Beale born #OTD 1633, one of the first professional women artists in England. You find her work unheralded in a host of @nationaltrust.org.uk properties. This is in West Suffolk's collection - don't know if it's on display @dailyartmagazine.bsky.social www.dailyartmagazine.com/masterpiece-...

I'll be speaking at Princeton on April 14th. If you're in the area, please do come on out. cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/...

Portrait of a Lady, c. 1680s, by #MaryBeale (nee Cradock; English, 1633-1699), who was born #otd, Mar 26. Held by Robilant + Voena, www.robilantvoena.com/art-work/por... #artherstory #womenartists

🎨 #MaryBeale, English artist, was #BOTD 26 March 1633 (baptised). #Art #Painting

A new AP-NORC poll finds that men and women have different views on who has the advantage when it comes to earning competitive wages.

For day 26 of #WomensHistoryMonth here's to Marguerite Thompson Zorach (1887–1968) one of the first Americans to embrace Modernism. She studied in Paris, traveled the world and exhibited in the famous 1913 Armory show. #womenartists

HOWEVER.... that's a big however From Artnet's always excellent Art Market Report Lots to learn here media.artnet.com/image/upload...

#womenartists whose names begin with Y for #WomensHistoryMonth Sculptors Enid Yandell and Daisy Youngblood

Love the Fosie pieces!

#WomensHistoryMonth continues with Chinese sculptor, Xiang Jing #womenartists

#WomensHistoryMonth Wonderful #womenartists Emmi Whitehorse Kay Walkingstick Carrie Mae Weems Betty Woodman

I like her!!!

#WomensHistoryMonth letter V #womenartists American sculptor and "White Rabbit" Bessie Potter Vonnoh and French portrait painter Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun More about Bessie Vonnoh here 👇 observer.com/2025/07/scul...

"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life." ~ T.S. Eliot Belle Tout Lighthouse (1939) 🎨 Eric Ravilious

"At times, her characters mull over the past, lamenting all they didn’t say, but more often, they are breathless, eager to see what lies ahead. That, for Savaş, is a kind of redemption: to move through the world with eyes open, to never stop looking." lareviewofbooks.org/article/long...

“Cassatt relished the details: the graceful cut of a skirt, the supple lines of a hand. Picturing a woman bathing a baby, Cassatt lingers on her lemon-yellow dress, dotted with black, tendril-like branches.” My review of “Mary Cassatt at Work” www.neh.gov/article/inde...

reading should make me, anyone, breathe harder, then easier,

#WomensHistoryMonth day 21 Hats off to Susan Unterberg #womanartist #philanthropist The creator of and driving force behind "Anonymous Was a Woman" giving millions of her own to #womenartists over decades ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #hero

It's the 20th day of #WomensHistoryMonth Here are works by Alma Thomas Dorothea Tanning Anne Truitt Rosie Lee Tompkins #womenartists

They look happy!

Wants a biscuit..

The Center for Craft is accepting applications for the 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship, offering four $5,000 awards to support research on underrepresented craft histories in the United States.

It's #WomensHistoryMonth For day 19 let's look at works by Pat Steir Hedda Sterne Betty Saar Joan Snyder #womenartists

It's #WomensHistoryMonth For day 19 let's look at works by Cindy Sherman Marsha Solomon Florine Stettheimer Kay Sage #womenartists

Amazing #womenartists to celebrate during #WomensHistoryMonth day 18 Deborah Remington Bridget Riley Rachel Ruysch Susan Rothenberg

Another Clara Peeters painting on display at #TEFAF this week - Still Life with a Basket of Fruit, a Berkemeyer, a Covered Glass Goblet and Some Nuts, 1620s Kunsthandel P. de Boer #womenartists #artherstory #tefaf2026

Catharina Questiers (1631-1669) was a Dutch poet, playwright, engraver and embroiderer, who was successful and celebrated during her lifetime. #womenartists #womenshistorymonth day 17

Cornelia Bentley Sage Quinton (1876 – 1936) American painter and curator and the first woman to direct a major American art museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Ma Quan (late 1600s) #WomensHistoryMonth #womenartists

For the 16th day of #WomensHistoryMonth let's see some works by Clara Peeters and Betty Parsons I love the contrast.

#womenartists 💪

#WomensHistoryMonth day 15, and we're sharing #womenartists whose names begin with the letter O Maria van Oosterwijck Yoko Ono Catherine Opie

@mgregorywriter.bsky.social gagosian.com/exhibitions/...

#WomensHistoryMonth www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

😬 Read this before you buy bananas.

A delightful interview

@politicdormouse.bsky.social www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

For #WomensHistoryMonth day 13 Tina Modotti Dora Maar and Agnes Martin #womenartists

For #WomensHistoryMonth day 12 here are #womenartists Judith Leyster Dorothea Lange and Maya Lin