Spotlight Artist November 2020: Kirsten Shanks
For our new series “Spotlight Artist of the Month”, the Art Gate team will interview emerging artists to…
Category: Women Artists
Zaha Hadid: Redefining Space
Baghdad-born London-educated architect Zaha Hadid is often described as “the greatest female architect of all times”. A statement…
On Peggy Guggenheim and her artistic début in New York
To conclude the week dedicated to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, I would like to tell you about the…
On Germaine Richier and her leading-edge sculptures
Continuing with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection theme, today I want to present to you one of the rare…
Friederike von Stackelberg Photography – Escaping Stripes
It is funny how one comes into contact with art. One child can walk full of boredom, through…
Posted inArt and Politics, Events, Mental Health Awareness, Territorial Identity, Visual Art, Women Artists
Snapshots of life: the eye of Battaglia in the Sicily of the Seventies
Once in high school, the Literature teacher took us to an important lecture. When we sat down, a…
Kusama – how obsession becomes art
“My artwork is an expression of my life, particularly of my mental disease.” (Yayoi Kusama, 1999) In order…
#filmtime: “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
This week dedicated to women in art ends with a focus on contemporary cinema. We present you “Portrait…
“One painting a day” – this is how Peggy Guggenheim became an ‘art addict’
This year the Peggy Guggenheim Collection celebrates 40 years from the opening of the museum in Venice in…
Rachel Ruysch: the first woman of the painters’ guild
Today I decided to talk about a combination of underrated gender and art genre, women and still life.…