While Surrealism of the early 20th century was a male dominated movement, here are ten women Surrealist artists and innovators who broke the movement’s glass ceiling and used their work as a tool for social change.
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With the opening of the exhibition, Making Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe: 1400-1800, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, featuring the work of groundbreaking women artists across four centuries, we take a look back at artist and art critic Jennifer Higgie's 2021 book The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: 500 years of Women’s Self Portraits.
The Art Institute of Chicago museum and their employee union have come to an agreement, securing their first contract which promises pay raises and affordable healthcare.
At the Deutsches Museum in Munich, an employee stole paintings from the permanent collection, swapped them for forgeries, and sold the original works at auction.
Billionaire Bernard Arnault, who is the second richest person in the world, is reportedly under investigation for transactions with a Russian businessman in France.
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the partnership between artist Daniel Arsham and Emmanuel Perrotin, the gallery has staged shows across its spaces in New York and Paris of the artist’s work.
Danish artist Jens Haaning has been ordered to repay the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark $71,000 for delivering framed empty canvases in breach of a contract to update earlier commissioned works.
A golf course in Ohio is now part of a UNESCO World Heritage site, because the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, a series of eight monumental earthen constructions created between 2,000 and 1,600 years ago, is situated on the property.
Among the many great exhibitions opening across the country this fall, here are ten the editors of Art & Object are particularly eager to see.
Timed with the premiere of 'Lee,' a movie all about the life and career of war photographer Lee Miller, at the Toronto Film Festival, photographer Annie Leibovitz recreated the famous photo of Miller in Hitler's bathtub, featuring Kate Winslet (the star of the film).
