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Women artists and feminist perspectives: More online resources

Resources for studying women artists, and for studying male artists from a feminist perspective.

More online resources

Marina Abramović, The Abramović Method, 2012. Source: Paolo Ferrarini, Flickr (edited). Licence.

 

Websites for specific topics are listed in the relevant guides: for instance, for websites about women painters in European history, see old masters - men and women.

 

The following sites are more general:  

 

Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA)
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Our members include: gallerists; curators; art advisers; academics; as well as auction house, museum, public sector and art fair professionals.'

 

Bow Down: Women in Art
Podcast from Frieze magazine, focussing on western artists, from both the old master and modernist periods.

 

Canadian Women Artists History Initiative
'Scholarly research into women’s contributions to the cultural and material history of Canada. Our focus is on the period prior to 1967.'

 

Great Women Artists Podcast
'Interviews artists on their career, or curators, writers, or general art lovers, on the female artist who means the most to them.'

 

National Museum of Women in the Arts
In Washington D.C.

 

UK Exhibitions by Women
Database maintained by the UK Friends of the National Museum for Women in the Arts.

 

Women Art Dealers Digital Archives (WADA)
'A new project to examine and elevate women art dealers’ contributions to today’s art world and the larger art-history canon.' Established 2022.

 

Women Artists Market Report 2024
From Artsy. Free registration required to download. The first report, from 2023, is also available.

 

Women in Art Fair
Second edition: London, October 2024.