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Tag: Women in the Arts

A Wave of Fascination Emerges Around Hilma af Klint’s Rise as an Icon of Abstract Art

Photo credit: www.smithsonianmag.com In February 2013, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm's national museum of modern art, launched an influential exhibition titled...

Flannery O’Connor Aimed to Jolt Her Readers, While Her Family Hoped She’d Create the Next ‘Gone With the Wind’

Photo credit: www.smithsonianmag.com Upon its release in 1939, the film Gone With the Wind was celebrated with a lavish premiere...

What Fueled Zora Neale Hurston’s Fascination with the Biblical Figure Herod the Great?

Photo credit: www.smithsonianmag.com As her life approached its twilight, Zora Neale Hurston confided to her editor at Scribner’s about a...

Introducing the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’: Unraveling Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues on Vanished Kitchen Produce

Photo credit: www.smithsonianmag.com A Renaissance Detective: Reviving Italy's Disappearing Fruit Varieties When examining a Renaissance painting, Isabella Dalla Ragione's attention is...

How Historical Artists, Writers, and Scientists Captured Climate Change

Photo credit: www.smithsonianmag.com In the year 1884, art critic John Ruskin lamented the pervasive air pollution stemming from industrial growth,...

Unveiling the Truth: The ‘Lee’ Movie and the Legacy of Lee Miller, Iconic Surrealist Photographer and WWII Journalist

Photo credit: www.smithsonianmag.com Antony Penrose, as a child in postwar England, had a unique perspective on his mother, Lee Miller,...