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Feminism

Cornelia Parker RA, Cold Dark Matter, An Exploded View

Artists

< 5 years ago

The International Women’s Day art quiz

Know your O‘Keeffe from your Kahlo? For International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating a few of the great female artists who deserve a wider audience. Take the quiz and let’s see how much you know.
Josie Cockram, Wanting 1

Opinion

< 6 years ago

Podcast: Women in focus

Does being a female artist influence how a work is created and perceived? Our panel discuss.
Clockwise from left: Rose Wylie RA, Gillian Wearing RA, Iwona Blazwick, Eileen Cooper RA, vPPR, Ann Dumas, Charlotte Mullins, Valeria Napoleone, Cornelia Parker RA, Rebecca Ackroyd

Opinion

< 6 years ago

10 inspirational women in the arts

To mark International Women’s Day, we asked some of the great women in the UK art world, from artists to editors, where things stand when it comes to equality. Here’s what they said.
Installation shot of room 6, Allen Jones RA at the Royal Academy

Opinion

7 years ago

Allen Jones: Pop Art meets Miley Cyrus?

Like many of today’s pop culture icons, Allen Jones’s work has sparked celebration and uproar. Chris Fite-Wassilak introduces an artist who made us blush 40 years before Miley.
Allen Jones RA, Chair

Opinion

7 years ago

Allen Jones’s ‘Chair’: the debate

Ahead of our Provocations in Art Salon, speakers Stacy Boldrick, Lyndsey Morgan and Grace Woodward describe their first reactions to a work that has sparked everything from vandalism to real-life re-creation. What’s your view?

Allen Jones RA, Body Armour

Opinion

7 years ago

Grace Woodward: can a feminist love Allen Jones?

The presenter, fashion commentator, stylist and feminist explains why she identifies with Allen Jones’s controversial works and picks a few of her favourites.