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Welcome to Women’s History Month 2025:
To celebrate, we are reposting tributes to some of the Swans who have made the greatest impact on our own lives. These are names & faces everyone should know!
Dyani White Hawk wants us to rethink art. She posits that European-American histories have created a hierarchy wherein certain forms and aspects of art are uplifted while others are devalued.… read more.
Alice Neel, a “collector of souls,” painted some of the most captivating portraits of the twentieth century. Known for her expressive use of color and deliberate distortion, she painted her nude subjects with compassion and honesty, representing the person beneath the portrait. Critics describe her work as confrontational, as empowered women stare back at you from the canvas.… read more.
Since 1932, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City has showcased new art via its Biennial. For four decades, curators of this globally renowned exhibition focused primarily on painting, sculpture, and artworks on paper.
In 1973, however, the Whitney broadened the field in terms of media. Since then, the Biennial has become a survey exhibition of art in a large variety of media.… read more.
Today marks the day in 1966 that renowned painter Alma Thomas finally had her first retrospective. It was held at the Gallery of Art at Howard University, with art historian James A. Porter serving as the curator. The exhibition ran from April 24th to May 17th.
Alma Thomas, who was almost 75 years old, had waited a very long time.… read more.