The Great Women Artists
By Katy Hessel
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kaye
Mar 22, 2022
Love this podcast! Great listening and learning experience.
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Created off the back of @thegreatwomenartists Instagram, this podcast is all about celebrating women artists. Presented by art historian and curator, Katy Hessel, this podcast interviews artists on their career, or curators, writers, or general art lovers, on the female artist who means the most to them.
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How to Live an Artful Life: December
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Bonus: Katy Hessel & Es Devlin
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Magda Keaney on Julia Margaret Cameron
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Megan Fontanella on Gabriele Münter
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Ekow Eshun on Toni Morrison, Octavia E. Butler, Hilary Mantel, Wangechi Mutu, and more
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Sally Mann
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Eva Helene Pade
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Hilton Als on Jean Rhys
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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How to Live an Artful Life (Audiobook Taster!)
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Tania Bruguera
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Emily Kam Kngwarray as told by Kelli Cole [Exhibition walkthrough at Tate Modern!]
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Meret Oppenheim as told by Lisa Wenger
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Lois Dodd
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May 27, 2025 |
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Lorna Simpson
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May 18, 2025 |
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Michaela Yearwood-Dan
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May 07, 2025 |
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Danielle Mckinney
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Bharti Kher
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Andrew Hottle on Sylvia Sleigh
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Katherine Bradford
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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Rose Wylie
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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Jenny Saville
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Sheila Heti on Jenny Holzer, Berthe Morisot, Margaux Williamson, and more
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Barbara Walker
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Shahzia Sikander
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Katharina Grosse
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Cecilia Vicuña
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Maria Balshaw on Museums (+ Tracey Emin, Frida Kahlo, and more!)
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Audrey Flack (1931–2024)
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Bonus episode: Witches in Art
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Merve Emre on Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Emerson Bowyer on Camille Claudel
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Sophia Jansson on Tove Jansson
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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The Story of Art Without Men (Abstract Expressionism -- Audiobook!)
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Cat Bohannon on the female body
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Amy Hale on Ithell Colquhoun
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Sam Taylor-Johnson
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Chloe Aridjis on Leonora Carrington
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Natalie Haynes on Medusa
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May 29, 2024 |
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Judy Chicago
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May 22, 2024 |
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Naomi Beckwith on Senga Nengudi
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May 14, 2024 |
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Rose B Simpson
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May 07, 2024 |
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Catherine Morris on Judith Scott
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Barbara Kruger
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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Karon Davis
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Furio Rinaldi on Tamara de Lempicka
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Doris Salcedo
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Kirsten Buick on Edmonia Lewis
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Lauren Elkin on Carolee Schneemann and Hannah Wilke
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Caroline Vout on Classical Bodies in Art
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Hilton Als on Diane Arbus and Alice Neel
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Elif Shafak on storytelling in art (+Frida Kahlo, Artemisia Gentileschi, and more!)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Julia Bryan-Wilson on Louise Nevelson
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Marina Warner on Eve, Lilith, Athena, Medusa
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Rachel Whiteread
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Christina Quarles
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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The Story of Art Without Men (Surrealism -- Audiobook!)
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Ruth Ozeki on objects and observation
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Anna Weyant
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Mickalene Thomas
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May 30, 2023 |
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Kiki Smith
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May 23, 2023 |
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Adriana Varejão
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May 16, 2023 |
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Marilyn Minter
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May 09, 2023 |
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Siri Hustvedt on Artemisia Gentileschi, Louise Bourgeois, and more
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May 02, 2023 |
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Sarah Sze
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Pamela Bannos on Vivian Maier
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Sonia Boyce
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Nellie Scott on Sister Mary Corita
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Tere Arcq on Remedios Varo
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Mary Beard on Classical Women (100th episode special!)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Jerry Saltz on Gillian Wearing, Tracey Emin, Kara Walker (and more!)
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Sonal Khullar on Amrita Sher-Gil
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Dorothy Price on Käthe Kollwitz
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Jenna Gribbon
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Catherine Opie
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Bloum Cardenas on Niki de Saint Phalle
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Louise Giovanelli
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Amy Sherald
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Tracey Emin
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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The Story of Art Without Men (Audiobook Taster!)
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Marina Abramović
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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Caroline Bourgeois on Marlene Dumas
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May 17, 2022 |
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Antonia Showering
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May 10, 2022 |
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Susan Weininger on Gertrude Abercrombie
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May 03, 2022 |
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Patricia Albers on Tina Modotti
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Marina Warner on Kiki Smith and Helen Chadwick
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Barbara Bloemink on Florine Stettheimer
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Magdalene Odundo
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Jeffreen M. Hayes on Augusta Savage
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Sheila Hicks
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Alexandra Munroe on Yoko Ono
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Deborah Levy on Francesca Woodman, Lee Miller, Paula Rego, Leonora Carrington
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Bisa Butler
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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William J Simmons on Cindy Sherman
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Flavia Frigeri on Marisol
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Jordan Casteel
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Tacita Dean
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Charlie Porter on Louise Bourgeois, Anne Truitt, Sarah Lucas, Martine Syms
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Nick Willing on Paula Rego
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Leilah Babirye
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Phyllida Barlow
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Raquel Cecilia Mendieta on Ana Mendieta
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Lisa Yuskavage
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Eileen Myles on Joan Mitchell
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Ali Smith on Barbara Hepworth, Pauline Boty, Tacita Dean, and Lorenza Mazzetti
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May 11, 2021 |
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Emma Ridgway on Ruth Asawa
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May 04, 2021 |
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Cindy Kang on Berthe Morisot
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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Stephanie Rosenthal on Yayoi Kusama
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Apr 20, 2021 |
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Julie Mehretu
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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Jennifer Higgie on Suzanne Valadon
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Diane Radycki on Paula Modersohn Becker
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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Katarina Jerinic on Francesca Woodman
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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The Gee's Bend Quiltmakers!
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Sue Tate on Pauline Boty
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Howardena Pindell
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Smith on Helen Frankenthaler
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Rebecca VanDiver on Lois Mailou Jones
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Polly Nor
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Griselda Pollock on Alina Szapocznikow
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Mona Chalabi
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Letizia Treves on Artemisia Gentileschi
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Alyce Mahon on Leonor Fini
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Guerrilla Girls
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Cecily Brown
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Wanda M Corn on Georgia O'Keeffe
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Toyin Ojih Odutola
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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Chloe Wise
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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Tracey Bashkoff on Hilma af Klint
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Sep 22, 2020 |
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Melanie Herzog on Elizabeth Catlett
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Cornelia Parker
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Lou Stoppard on Shirley Baker
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Bridget R Cooks on Alma Thomas
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Loie Hollowell
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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Natalie Lettner on Maria Lassnig
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Somaya Critchlow
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Lubaina Himid
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Julie Curtiss
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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Cassi Namoda
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Jun 30, 2020 |
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Briony Fer on Eva Hesse
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Helene Love-Allotey, Chloe Austin, Emi Eleode
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Nengi Omuku, Alayo Akinkugbe, Michaela Yearwood-Dan
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Deborah Roberts
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May 26, 2020 |
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Flora Yukhnovich
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May 19, 2020 |
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Olivia Laing on Chantal Joffe, Sarah Lucas and Ana Mendieta
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May 12, 2020 |
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Prudence Flint
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May 05, 2020 |
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Helen Molesworth on Alice Neel
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Jo Applin on Louise Bourgeois
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Laura Smith on Eileen Agar
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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Shirin Neshat
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Feb 25, 2020 |
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Chantal Joffe on Charlotte Salomon
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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Genieve Figgis
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Feb 11, 2020 |
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Jadé Fadojutimi
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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Hans Ulrich Obrist on Faith Ringgold and Luchita Hurtado
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Jan 28, 2020 |
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Jessie Burton on Frida Kahlo
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Emma Lewis on Dora Maar
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Jan 14, 2020 |
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Zoe Whitley on Betye Saar
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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Celia Paul
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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Maggi Hambling
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Dec 03, 2019 |
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Iwona Blazwick on Anna Maria Maiolino
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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Unskilled Worker
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Frances Morris on Agnes Martin
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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Aïcha Mehrez on Lisa Brice
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Nov 05, 2019 |
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Joanna Moorhead on Leonora Carrington
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Ami Bouhassane on Lee Miller
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Tschabalala Self
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Oct 14, 2019 |
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Juno Calypso
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Es Devlin
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Eleanor Nairne on Lee Krasner
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Sep 24, 2019 |
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The Great Women Artists Trailer
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Sep 16, 2019 |