Art and Design - The Persistent

A watercolor painting of Aubrey Hirsch, a white woman with short, blonde wavy hair. She stares straight at us. She wears a short-sleeved red and white striped blouse.

The Interview

'No One’s Dreaming of a Day When Women Would Be the Default.'

The comics in Aubrey Hirsch's new book, "Graphic Rage," blow the lid open on the indignities in women’s lives and push back, one small rebellion at a time.

Violence Against Women and Girls

'What I Was Wearing'

She thought it was a cute outfit. They thought it was an invitation.

A woman in a white dress, sitting on a chair, twists her body to look up at the sky.

Art and Design

Visceral, Dark, Hopeful: The World Through Women’s Eyes

This year's Women Photograph grant winners offer an honest, hopeful view of the world as it looks through a woman's lens.

A cartoon of a woman running with a backpack on. She is being watched by people, staring down at her.

Art and Design

The Labels We Carry

Sometimes how you feel on the inside vs. what people see on the outside doesn't match up at all.

A watercolor painting of Margo Selby (left) and Helen Caddick (right), the creators of "Moon Landing"

The Interview

‘The Chaotic, the Creative, the Instinctive, the Structured, the Mathematical’

An immersive project at Canterbury Cathedral marks the 1969 moon landing—and the women from a Navajo reservation in New Mexico who made that landing possible.

Watercolor image of Nancy Borowick, a white woman with long dark hair, brown eyes and colorful earrings.

Great Women

‘Let's Be Honest, Moms Are Never In the Photo’

The photographer Nancy Borowick takes on a taboo topic and puts mothers at the center.

Gillian Brett, wearing day-glo overalls, sculpts a two-footgreen wax model of Fanny Wilkinson.

Forgotten Feminists

70 Years After Her Death, Britain’s First Female Landscape Designer Finally Gets Her Due

Fanny Wilkinson designed more 75 public gardens in London during her 20-year career. Now she's being commemorated by the sculptor Gillian Brett.

A painting of a stylish woman walking in a city street with the moon rising. She is looking around her.

Art and Design

Yes, Cities Can Be Sexist. Here’s How to Fix Them.

The idea that urban design can be discriminatory has become more established in recent years. Some city planners are making changes accordingly.

An illustration of a woman wearing a boob robe and surrounded by boob homewares.

Art and Design

What Is It About Boobs?

Some people like flowers on their homewares. Some like cute animals. I like boobs.

Watercolor of Alison Place, a woman with long dark hair and bangs and blue eyes, folds her arms. She wears a yellow blouse.

The Interview

Designers Are Taught to Think of Their Work as Neutral. It’s Not.

Feminist design can show up in anything from the apps we use to the healthcare we receive. The issue is prioritizing it.

A watercolor showing Daniella Zalcman smiling in a short-sleeved top, with her long dark hair swept down one side of her face

The Interview

Who Takes the Photo, Tells the Story

The founder of Women Photograph on how diversity in photojournalism can change the conversation. (Yes, it really matters.)

Detail from a work by Jessa Fairbrother showing a woman who appears pregnant holding her belly.

Art and Design

When Words Fail On Infertility, There is Art

Infertility, so long hidden from view, is finally finding a spotlight in various contemporary art forms.

The 1917 painting by Laura Knight, shows a woman in an orange dress standing on rocks, looking down at the ocean.

Culture

Below the Surface of Women’s Art, Centuries of #MeToo, Misogyny

Viewers who take the time to look closely at Tate Britain's "Now You See Us" will uncover a great deal about the plight of professional women artists over the last 400 years.