Happy 69th Birthday, Emmylou Harris
Angel-voiced singer-songwriter Emmylou Harris turns 69 today, so it’s fitting that we offer her a little tribute.
Gwen Stefani Scores Her First #1 Solo Album
Three’s a charm for Gwen: her third solo album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like, debuted at the top of the Billboard 200, making it her first number one solo project.
Major London Art Gallery Launching All-Woman Exhibition
London’s Saatchi Gallery is planning its first all-women exhibition this month as a sort of corrective to the way women artists are continually marginalized in the art world. Though Saatchi can take credit for helping leverage the careers of seminal feminist artists like Tracey Emin to the mainstream, this is the…
Color Field Painter Helen Frankenthaler Dies At 83
Helen Frankenthaler, an artist who helped develop a style of painting known as Color Field, has died at the age of 83. Though she was one of the most famous female artists of her generation, she said she never thought of herself as a "lady painter."
Will The Real Christina Aguilera Please Stand Up?
Christina Aguilera has said every album is a 180-degree turn from her last; her songs range from pop to jazz to pulsing club music. She reinvents herself yet again on Bionic, her new album, but what's ultimately missing is humanity.
In Praise Of Louise Bourgeois
As previously mentioned, Louise Bourgeois died last week. She was one of the most influential sculptors on the art scene, and, for reasons I will explain, my favorite (once) living artist.
Split Decisions
[London, May 27. Image via Getty]
R.I.P. Honoré Sharrer
American realist artist Honoré Sharrer has died at 88. Sharrer is best known for her 1940's depictions of the working class, but her more recent work often focused on women's roles. [NYT]
(Art Deco) Antiques Roadshow
[New York, May 1. Image via Getty]
Feminist Artist Makes MoMA A Woman
Pipilotti Rist is currently showing her work Pour Your Body Out at NYC's MoMA, where she turns the atrium of the museum into a womb, making over the masculine space into something inescapably feminine.
