The painter, 89, has never shied away from erotic imagery. Her signature nude self-portraits are an attempt to see herself through her own eyes. The artist Joan Semmel in her SoHo studio, where she ...

Gabrielle Wilkinson of the Florida Gators and other competitors run in the women’s 800 meter final during the Division I Men's and Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at Hayward Field ...

Mathematicians have discovered that there is no exact formula for the “perfect” female body. A study recently published in Scientific Reports challenges long-standing assumptions about the most ...

The 1513 portrait “An Old Woman” by Flemish artist Quinten Massys might well be one of the Renaissance’s most famous paintings. It is also one of the period’s most atypical. With wrinkled skin, ...

From Yoko Ono to Frida Kahlo, from Louise Bourgeois to Artemisia Gentileschi, women have long been capturing the unvarnished truth about their own bodies – and that’s why my novel Female, Nude weaves ...

Following in the bloody footsteps of Coralie Fargeat’s 'The Substance,' a new wave of female filmmakers is reinventing body horror, melding grotesque transformations with sharp critiques of beauty ...

“The Taliban has destroyed two decades of progress in Afghanistan in a matter of weeks. No matter where I am, I will continue to fight for the rights of my people and work to save those who are in ...

In 2024 Southern Illinois University, along with the Sharp Museum, hosted an exhibit called Women’s Voices. These are stories from some of the featured artists. Documentaries is available to stream on ...

In March, an exhibition of works by Jenny Saville, the British artist known for her large-scale figurative paintings, went on display at the Albertina Museum, in Vienna. The day before the opening, ...

This month, the focus is on women as this Saturday marks International Women’s Day. Acclaimed visual artist Giorgos Gerontidis contributes to the occasion in his own way by holding a new painting ...

It was 2016 when PhotoVogue dedicated its Festival to the female gaze, questioning the hegemony of the male perspective in the arts, investigating through photography the concept theorised by the film ...