Katy Hessel on The Story of Art Without Men
Spanning over five centuries from the Cornish coast to Manhattan, Nigeria to Japan, this is the story of art for our times - one with women at its heart
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Katy Hessel on The Story of Art Without Men, with Pandora Sykes - PPV
“I’ll show you what a woman can do.” - Artemisia Gentileschi, 1649
How many women artists do you know? Visit any gallery of note and you would be forgiven for coming up blank. Despite the work of activist groups and scholars alike, women are still remarkably absent from the history of art.
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