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 |

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

BY Wangechi Mutu |

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

BY Jennifer Kabat |

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

BY Nairy Baghramian |

‘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 |

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

BY Iman Issa |

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 |

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

BY Alice Twemlow |

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

BY Fatma Bucak |

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

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

BY Marilyn Minter |

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

BY Jennifer Higgie |

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

BY Zoe Williams |

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

BY Sheila Hicks |

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

BY Celia Paul |

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

BY Rosalyn Drexler |

‘Hesse was an adventurer and brave with her materials’

BY Yu Ji |

‘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 |

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

BY Mimi Chu |

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

BY Claudia Calirman |

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

BY Sheryl E. Reiss |

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 |

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

BY Nicole Wermers |