Katy Hessel
June 2024
The great women's art bulletinOne vision, 4000 artists and a country transformed: why the next British PM must copy RooseveltRoosevelt’s New Deal gave artists like Alice Neel and Lee Krasner a lifeline during a time of crisis – and it changed the face of America. Whoever wins the UK election should take heed
May 2024
The great women's art bulletinThrill me, hide me, restore me: what can we learn about artists from their gardens?From the spectacular Tarot Garden Niki de Saint Phalle built in Tuscany to Barbara Hepworth’s sculpture oasis in St Ives, artists’ green spaces are about so much more than plants and pruning
April 2024
The great women's art bulletinFrom Banksy’s green leaves to Miami’s pink islands, public art’s a party – and everyone’s invited!Yoko Ono hung wishes from trees. Jeanne-Claude and Christo coated entire coastlines. But their work had one thing in common: it made us think about what we should cherish – and what we are losing
March 2024
The great women's art bulletinWhy does Cleopatra always have to die nude? Male titillaters – and the artist who stood against themFrom Medusa to Circe, novelists have scored hits with feminist reimaginings of Greek myths and historical figures. But Swiss-born painter Angelica Kauffman beat them to it – by 250 years
February 2024
The great women's art bulletinYou can’t ban embroidery! Why Arts Council England’s crackdown is a stitch-upHas anyone behind ACE’s warning about ‘political statements’ been to Unravel? As this tumultuous show about textile art proves, even a quilt can tell a story of outrage, exploitation and horror
January 2024
Katy HesselThe great women's art bulletinThe monstrous old master: how Succession’s Rubens lays bare the Roy family’s brutalityThe 17th-century painting The Tiger Hunt depicts a visceral battle for power that perfectly sets up the HBO series – and paintings on the walls in other TV shows hold hidden messages
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The great women's art bulletin‘Like an exploded iPhone’: why Sarah Sze is the perfect artist for the age of information overloadThe American artist’s planetarium-like structures combine painting, sculpture, architecture and even ladders, wire and scissors. They are impossible to take in all at once – much like modern life
March 2023
The great women's art bulletinLecherous abusers: why Artemisia Gentileschi’s Susanna reminded me of Paula YatesThroughout art history, the Biblical story of a bathing woman was painted by men in order to titillate – but at 17, Gentileschi showed the way women are still objectified and shamed to this day
February 2023
January 2023
The great women's art bulletin‘Abuse of power comes as no surprise’: after David Carrick, Jenny Holzer’s words are more relevant than everThe artist emblazoned her political work on to a billboard in Times Square in 1982, but I thought of it after Weinstein, Trump, Wayne Couzens … How many more times?
