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A new book titled *Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso* by Sue Roe (published by Faber and W.W. Norton) examines the lives of Picasso's six most significant partners: Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. The book challenges the narrative that these women were passive muses, instead revealing their personal ambitions and reasons for entering relationships with the artist, drawing on journals and historical context to present their perspectives.

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The article profiles ten young female artists who are using their work to explore and assert feminist perspectives in the face of contemporary misogyny, particularly referencing the US president-elect's rhetoric. Featured artists include Emma Sulkowicz, known for her durational performance 'Carry That Weight' protesting campus rape culture, and Sarah Maple, a British artist whose multimedia works tackle identity and gender with provocative humor. The piece highlights how these artists address themes such as sexual violence, gender fluidity, and the reclaiming of femininity through mediums ranging from performance and video to painting and photography.

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Los Angeles-based artist Catherine Opie is in London for the opening of her solo exhibition "Portraits and Landscapes" at Thomas Dane Gallery, following the installation of her major survey "Keeping an Eye on the World" at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Norway. The show features one large-scale abstracted portrait of the British coast and 13 Old Master-influenced portraits of renowned contemporary artists and figures, including David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, Duro Olowu, Thelma Golden, Gillian Wearing, Isaac Julien, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. In an interview, Opie discusses her choice of sitters, her formal portrait techniques, and the meta-portrait quality of riffing on the subjects' own artistic practices.

On Curating Carnage

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The Berlin-based art journal *OnCurating* published a September 2025 issue titled "Let’s Talk About… Anti-Democratic, Anti-Queer, Misogynist, Antisemitic, Right-Wing Spaces and Their Counter-Movements." The article critiques this publication, arguing it uses the language of feminism, anti-racism, and anti-Semitism as a political tool to unconditionally support Israel and demonize the Palestinian cause, thereby aligning with German state policy and a specific strain of leftist thought known as Antideutsch.

Rosalía Apologizes for Picasso Comments on TikTok

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Spanish pop star Rosalía issued a public apology on TikTok after facing backlash for comments regarding Pablo Picasso. During a podcast interview with writer Mariana Enriquez, the singer initially stated she did not care to differentiate Picasso’s art from his personal life; however, she later retracted those statements, admitting she was unaware of the artist's well-documented history of physical and emotional abuse toward women.

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A new exhibition titled “Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits” at London’s Kenwood House explores the phenomenon of the “dollar princesses”—American heiresses who married into the British aristocracy between 1870 and 1914. The show features eight paintings and ten charcoal studies by John Singer Sargent, including portraits of notable figures like Nancy Astor and Consuelo Vanderbilt, and runs through October 5. Curated by Wendy Monkhouse of English Heritage, the exhibition examines the complex social dynamics behind these transatlantic unions, which were often criticized as mercenary transactions.

George Baselitz, Purveyor of the Tortured Male Genius Myth, Dies at 88

Georg Baselitz, the influential German Neo-Expressionist painter known for his emotionally charged, often violent works and his controversial statements about women artists, has died at age 88. His final paintings will be shown in the exhibition "Eroi d’Oro" at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice starting May 6. Baselitz rose to prominence with his "Heroes" series of monumental male soldiers and his signature "upside down" paintings, which forced viewers to focus on painterly gesture over representation. He was a key precursor to Germany's Neue Wilde movement and confronted Germany's World War II trauma in works that combined expressionistic brutality with Wagnerian grandeur.

Is it finally time for the Guerrilla Girls to remove their masks?

The Getty Research Institute is hosting "How to Be a Guerrilla Girl," its first major exhibition drawn from the extensive archives of the anonymous feminist activist collective. The show features early drafts, posters, and archival materials that trace the group's 40-year history of using humor and data to combat misogyny and racism in the art world. Despite the institutional spotlight, the Getty has chosen to maintain the group's secrecy, even redacting names from public documents and keeping boxes of unmasked photographs sealed until the members' deaths.

59th Carnegie International's inaugural artist commissions revealed

Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh has announced the first 14 artists for its 59th Carnegie International, running from May 2026 to January 2027. Participants include Torkwase Dyson, Alia Farid, Sanchayan Ghosh, Jonathan González, Abraham González Pacheco, Eric Gyamfi, G. Peter Jemison, Liz Johnson Artur, Arturo Kameya, Claudia Martínez Garay, Cinthia Marcelle, Shala Miller, Brooke O’Harra, Sofu Teshigahara, and Ginger Brooks Takahashi. The exhibition, curated by Ryan Inouye, Liz Park, and Danielle A. Jackson, will feature commissions across multiple disciplines, including a planetarium animation, sound installations, photography, performance, and public outdoor works. Venues include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Children’s Museum, Kamin Science Center, Mattress Factory, and Thelma Lovette YMCA.

“Dyke is our armor:” A conversation with dyke artist Sarah-Joy Ford’s about her new exhibition Dykeland (2025)

Dr. Sarah-Joy Ford, an artist and independent scholar based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, has opened her exhibition "Dykeland: Volume 1" at The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery in Rossendale on June 7, 2025. The show explores the history of dyke and lesbian landscapes in the UK, focusing on queer relationality to placemaking and preservation. It interweaves historical material, personal memory, and fantasy in response to Jane Cambell's upcoming poetry collection "Dykeland and other secret islands," and is displayed alongside Cambell's art. Ford uses quiltmaking as a medium to share lesbian and queer archival material, continuing a tradition of queer fabric art that includes recent installations like the ACLU's 258-square-quilt display on the National Mall and the Euphoria Quilt by Eliot Anderberg.

CMOA unveils the 59th Carnegie International

The Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) held a press tour on May 1, 2026, for the 59th Carnegie International, titled "If the word we." The exhibition features 61 artists from around the world, including 36 newly commissioned works, alongside pieces from CMOA's permanent collection. It opens to the public on May 2, 2026, and runs through January 3, 2027. Notable participants include artists Abraham González Pacheco, Elle Márjá Eira, Hans Ragnar Mathisen, Joar Nango, G. Peter Jemison, Sarah Ndele, and Georges Adeagbo, with tours led by professor Jongwoo Jeremy Kim.

Imagining the Manosphere as a Kinder, Gentler Place

Two new art exhibitions are tackling the aesthetics and ideology of the online "manosphere," a network of communities promoting hypermasculinity and often misogyny. The shows, 'The Manosphere: A New Hope?' at the New Museum and 'Soft Boys' at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, use video, sculpture, and installation to dissect this digital subculture and its visual language.

Korean-American artist Misoo Bang’s solo exhibition opens at AVA Gallery

Korean-American artist Misoo Bang’s solo exhibition “전미개오 轉迷開悟: Buddhist Teaching of Being Freed of Anguish and Reaching Nirvana” opens at the Alliance for the Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery in Lebanon on August 22. The show features works from her “Giantess” series, which depicts survivors of sexual violence, her “Giant Asian Girls” series, which challenges stereotypes of Asian-American women, and her “Lotus Flowers” series, which uses the traditional Buddhist painting technique Taenghwa to portray Buddhas and female Bodhisattvas. Bang, a Vermont-based lecturer at the University of Vermont, was named one of the 10 emerging artists of New England by Art New England in 2019 and a Vermont artist to watch by the Vermont Arts Council in 2020.

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Marie Chapman, CEO of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, stepped down on Thursday after a special commissioner's investigation found she had mistreated staff throughout her decade-long tenure. The report, released by the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner, accused Chapman of serious code of conduct breaches, including using slurs and misogynistic language—such as referring to the senior leadership team as "sluts"—ranking female employees by age, and fostering a culture of fear that left some staff contemplating self-harm. Chapman was appointed under former Prime Minister Stephen Harper and reappointed by the Trudeau government in 2016 and 2021; her contract expired in October but she had been granted a 90-day transitional term.

Female Hysteria Opening Night at the Pierro Gallery

The Pierro Gallery in South Orange is hosting the opening night for "Female Hysteria," a group exhibition featuring nine women artists. The show directly confronts the historical use of "hysteria" as a misogynistic medical diagnosis used to pathologize female emotions and bodies, instead reclaiming the term as a source of creative power.

Art, poetry and dialogue explore misogyny in Stroud exhibition

A new art exhibition titled "The Silence Between Us" is opening at Studio 18 in Brimscombe, Stroud, exploring modern misogyny through works by young women and men from the local area. The show spans photography, textiles, paintings, poetry, and dialogue, with an opening night on December 11 and a public run from December 12 to 18.

Art on Main presents "Women in Art: Revealing Our Magnificence" opening reception

Art on Main in Dallas is presenting "Women in Art: Revealing Our Magnificence," a juried exhibition featuring bold, expressive works across mediums such as painting, drawing, photography, fiber art, sculpture, printmaking, and ceramics. The opening reception includes live music by the East Dallas Uke-A-Ladies and a set by DJ MISO, along with a Best in Show award presentation, and the exhibit runs through May 30.