French Realist painter Gustave Courbet made a stir in the art scene with his (at the time) scandalous subjects. His earliest ...

The younger sister of Simone, Hélène fell victim to her sibling's long-casting shadow – but a London exhibition may see her work re-evaluated ...

From 'Paris is Burning' to 'Mama Gloria', these films have shed light on the intersection of race, sexuality, and identity in the Black queer experience.

Despite the fact that most of humanity has shared the devastating emotional turmoil of a breakup, the topic is strangely elusive in the history of art.

Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment ...

A new exhibition spotlights James Tissot, whose paintings and prints reflected women’s ever-evolving roles in Victorian ...

I'm in my first year as a quinquagenarian (yep, SAT word) and life sure looks different these days. After two decades in New ...

Milledgeville, Georgia, Jan. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- One of the great American writers, Flannery O’Connor is a world-renowned icon of southern gothic fiction — but she was also a visual artist, ...

A gun-wielding maniac is behind bars for allegedly kidnapping an elderly Arizona woman whose boyfriend was found dead after a terrifying home invasion that led police on an hours-long manhunt.

NYPD detectives are searching for a hooded man who was filmed spray-painting the words “Kill ... after a crazed migrant torched a homeless woman to death while she slept on an F train in Brooklyn.

Historically, stories with an emphasis on straight sex and romance have centered women in the years of peak fertility, the years when men could presumably impregnate them. Romances are variations ...