Women in art

“❝He remembered the way love had burned through him like a flame under glass, grasping outward, devouring what air it had left before it choked. How he hated it; desperately he had tried to keep it burning.❞ ──𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐡 𝐍𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫, These Violent Delights.”

Over the centuries, artists from Artemisia Gentileschi to Pipilotti Rist have given form to powerful expressions of women’s anger.

Women are such complex subjects when it comes to painting them no matter what medium you use whether it is watercolors or oils or acrylic paints. It somehow seems to make sense to paint them

The Pre-Raphaelite artists of Victorian England painted many Shakespearian characters, but Ophelia was a particular favourite. The sad death by drowning of Hamlet's sweetheart...

One of the best parts of my job as a home director for Apartment Therapy is getting to meet design professionals that are so dedicated to their crafts—and in many cases, also doing some sort of social good at whatever level they can—that they truly inspire me every day, regardless of what gender they do or don’t identify with.