Thursday, October 25, 2012

Female artists

  • Ancient Aphrodite Too Hot for Texas, Women Artists Sidelined at Frieze, and More

    The London-based Guerrilla Girls-esque group also notes that 67 percent of galleries at Frieze represent less than a third female artists and only 3.7 percent represent an equal number of men and women. [HuffPo]. - Rotterdam Heist Linked to Coke Bust?

    www.artinfo.com

  • Mistresspieces: why switching art by men and women doesn't work

    It has removed all works by modern male artists from its galleries and filled them with works by 20th- and 21st-century women artists from Georgia O'Keeffe to Pipilotti Rist. Works of art by Jasper Johns and Jackson Pollock have gone into storage ...

    www.guardian.co.uk

  • Carly Rae Jepson named Billboard's Rising Star; to be honored at Women in ...

    In a statement Thursday, Jepsen says she was influenced by many female artists and hopes to inspire budding musicians the way her heroes inspired her.

    www.washingtonpost.com

  • Audrey's Society Whirl: ASCAP's Women Behind the Music Honors Top Female ...

    ASCAP's 3-day, 3-city series was designed to encourage and recognize women in the music community, highlighting not only women songwriters and artists, but women working in all facets of the business, including managers, attorneys, label executives and ...

    www.eurweb.com

  • Carly Rae Jepsen Is Billboard's Rising Star

    She'll join Katy Perry, who has been named Woman of the Year. In a statement Thursday, Jepsen says she was influenced by many female artists and hopes to inspire budding musicians the way her heroes inspired her. Jepsen says she is truly honored by ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Arts | Week of October 25, 2012

    Women of Influence: Colorado Artists and Curators; Intimate Dialogue: Seven Women, Seven Voices; La Mexicana; Female Icons in Mexican Culture. Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200. Through Dec. 16.

    www.boulderweekly.com

  • Older Women Artists and The Art Of Living

    In a recent article in the Financial Times, journalist Rachel Spence discussed a topic rarely mentioned in the art world: the OWAs; Older.

    www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

  • Does Egon Schiele's Risque Art Make Him a Prophet of Unchained Female ...

    Perhaps no artist did more to eviscerate the demure academicism of the 19th-century nude painting than Egon Schiele. His drawings, gouaches, and watercolors of spindly, ephebic prostitutes engaged in various acts of masturbation can be - and have been ...

    www.artinfo.com

  • Already Here arts and media exhibition showcases black creativity at UAL

    I take pride in the fact that now at CCW graduate school, I'm walking in the same footsteps as artists such as Isaac Julien, Chris Ofili, and Yinka Shonibare and have had the privilege of being able to connect with female artists such as Sonia Boyce ...

    peoplewithvoices.com

  • 'Nude Men': Leopold Museum Gives Naked Men Their Time To Shine (PHOTOS ...

    Twenty-five thousand years ago a voluptuous female rock named Venus of Willendorf jumped on the budding trend of the artistic female nude, a trend which, little did she know, never died. The artistic male nudes, however, have been a bit more prudish ...

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  • Women artists take over Seattle Art Museum

    SEATTLE (AP) - Inspired by the Pompidou Center in Paris, which for nearly two years removed all the men's art from their modern galleries, the Seattle Art Museum is letting women take over its downtown building this fall. Lovers of art by men can ...

    www.businessweek.com

  • Soft power and modern art combine for Riyadh's first ever gallery of female ...

    Despite the novelty of the contemporary art phenomena in Saudi Arabia, female artists are resilient and determined to break into the regional and global art scene.

    www.albawaba.com

  • Pop divas balance fame, religion New generation of singers in Malaysia ...

    With a folk-soul sound resembling early Norah Jones, US-based Zee, who comes from a Muslim family, is among a wave of Malaysian women artists who have used social media to appeal directly - and successfully - to fans. Another rising star is Yuna, ...

    www.arabtimesonline.com

  • Worse Than The Boardroom: Meet The Women Challenging Sexism In The Arts

    The galleries chosen to show at this year's 10th Frieze Art Fair, the annual event that puts London at the centre of the global contemporary art world, were assessed by the ELF for the ratio of male and female artists they represented. Their findings ...

    www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

  • Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Linkin Park Will Play American Music Awards

    Both singers are nominated in the Favorite Female Artist - Pop/Rock category against Katy Perry and Kelly Clarkson. Swift, who won big at the 2011 AMAs, is eligible for the Favorite Female Artist - Country award. Considering AMA nominees are determined ...

    www.spin.com

  • Calendar: Oct. 24-30

    Gas and Electric Arts continues its tenaciously innovative celebration of bold female playwrights with its new production of Carson Kreitzer's acclaimed work Behind the Eye.

    www.philadelphiaweekly.com

  • A woman's soul: solo exhibition haunts and excites

    Young artist Shayma Kamel's Roh (Soul), which opened at Tache Art Gallery on Friday, explores female existence in a male-dominated world, and provides artistic depictions of the soul that permeate the fabric of modern Egyptian society. Keeping a close ...

    english.ahram.org.eg

  • Female music executives advise CSUN students on how to succeed

    Female music executives and recording artists advised students on entering the music industry at CSUN Tuesday during the "Women in Music" event. "Women in Music" was held in collaboration between Grammy U and the CSUN-based Music and ...

    sundial.csun.edu

  • Lives of the Artists: Two New Docs Offer Insight Into the Creative Life

    In many ways, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (Music Box DVD) is a film about watching a woman sit nonreactive, silent, motionless in front of a parade of strangers for hours, for weeks, for months.

    www.metropulse.com

  • SAM's 'Elles' frames female artists in a new way

    SAM's 'Elles' frames female artists in a new way. Art historian and writer Gayle Clemans reviews "Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris," on view at Seattle Art Museum from Oct. 11, 2012. to Jan. 13, 2013. By Gayle Clemans. Special to ...

    seattletimes.com

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