Issue 7
September 2018

From this issue

Born in Kandy, Minnette de Silva was the first Asian female architect to be registered with RIBA

BY Amy Sherlock | 11 SEP 18

‘Her oeuvre was a radical departure and fiery negation of the masculine art-making that was prominent in the 1970s’

BY Wangechi Mutu | 11 SEP 18

Featuring Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, ‘Womanhouse’ marks the 30th anniversary of the museum dedicated to women artists

BY Jennifer Kabat | 10 SEP 18

‘Eichwald often reveals her journey through her direct, yet humorous and heady titles’

BY Nairy Baghramian | 07 SEP 18

‘I remember being hit by the odour of smoke and the soft, hazy light bathing the enormous space of the abandoned factory’

BY İpek Duben | 06 SEP 18

‘Green’s installation doesn’t exist to serve as evidence of well-established narratives’

BY Iman Issa | 04 SEP 18

A recent exhibition in Paris rightly affirms the artist as a central figure in arguably the first gender-equal Western art movement

BY Griselda Pollock | 03 SEP 18

Ahead of the school’s centenary, European museums celebrate the creative brilliance of the often-overlooked Bauhaus women

BY Alice Twemlow | 03 SEP 18

‘Fragments of improvized poetry came together and devoured one another’

BY Fatma Bucak | 02 SEP 18

20 Museum directors from major institutions around the world nominate a favourite work by a woman artist in their collection

01 SEP 18

‘She has such authority in her tangled daubs and streaks’

BY Marilyn Minter | 01 SEP 18

The myriad achievements of women artists, writers, curators, patrons and art historians

BY Jennifer Higgie | 01 SEP 18

‘I love the sense of compulsion and joy present in this painting’

BY Zoe Williams | 31 AUG 18

‘The fact that it was most likely made with recycled fabric touches me immensely’

BY Sheila Hicks | 30 AUG 18

‘I have learned from John that you don’t need to shout in order to make an impact’

BY Celia Paul | 30 AUG 18

‘When her mother died, she stopped talking. What is there to say when all is lost?’

BY Rosalyn Drexler | 29 AUG 18

‘Hesse was an adventurer and brave with her materials’

BY Yu Ji | 27 AUG 18

‘Kahlo’s dresses, corsets and shoes took on the shapes of her love, pain and identity, still palpable 58 years after her death’

BY Ishiuchi Miyako | 26 AUG 18

Recent insights from scholars suggest the famed work may have had a female patron

BY Mimi Chu | 25 AUG 18

How the radical practices of female artists drove the Modernist movement in Brazil

BY Claudia Calirman | 23 AUG 18

From Antiquity to the present day, women have been crucial in shaping taste, building collections and supporting artists

BY Sheryl E. Reiss | 22 AUG 18

The extraordinary life of artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, a sculptor of African American and indigenous heritage who achieved international acclaim 

BY Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson | 21 AUG 18

‘Truitt’s sculptures add depth and dimension to minimalist shapes and monochrome surfaces’

BY Nicole Wermers | 20 AUG 18