In September, curator and art historian Katy Hessel, known for her popular Instagram account @thegreatwomenartists, published her first book, The Story of Art Without Men, in the U.K. Now, the ...

Within an endless procession of museum halls filled to the brim with celebrated male painters, it is an exciting novelty to spot just one or two works by some relatively unsung woman artist. Hanging ...

Ernst Gombrich’s The Story of Art, originally published in 1950, has gone through many expansions and rewritings, and it has been much translated. It thus is as near to a universally recognized ...

Joanna Boyce Wells, "Study of Fanny Eaton" (1861), oil on paper laid to linen (photo courtesy the Yale Center for British Art) Did you know that the German nature painter Maria Sibylla Merian ...

Art historian, author and presenter Katy Hessel posed for photos at the Falmouth Book Festival on October 19, 2022, in Falmouth, England. Her new book "The Story of Art Without Men" showcases the ...

How many women artists can you name? That was a question Katy Hessel, then a 21-year-old art history major, asked herself. The results were disappointing. And so she set about learning and teaching ...

Katy Hessel’s new survey of women artists leaves out men, but also falls short of offering a new take on feminist art history. E.H. Gombrich’s Story of Art (on which Hessel’s title riffs) was first ...

Hanging out at MoMA with Katy Hessel, a British art historian, podcast host and curator of the Great Women Artists Instagram account. By Dayna Evans See more of our coverage in your search ...

In 1917, the Metropolitan Museum of Art received a stunning gift: a portrait by the French Neoclassical master Jacques-Louis David. The 1801 painting, titled Marie Joséphine Charlotte du Val d’Ognes ...

A change in plans isn’t always bad, just different. Katy Hessel, the 26-year-old art curator and historian who runs the Instagram account @thegreatwomenartists, was set to do a talk with the artist ...

“I’ll show you what a woman can do.” – Artemisia Gentileschi, 1649 Through her work on The Great Women Artists Instagram and Podcast and her new book The Story of Art without Men published by WW ...

The new book examines the power of patriarchy in the art world. Telling 'The Story of Art Without Men' with Katy Hessel Art historian Katy Hessel had just left an art show in 2015 when she realized ...