16th & 17th-cent. Flemish and Dutch women artists worked in myriad media, from sculpture and painting to engraving and lacemaking. @womeninthearts re-examines class division and international conquest in "Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1650-1700.”

Our review: lnkd.in/eFpzKJAk

RIP #J.Khashoggi, the 1st amendment, and US democracy. Another sad day in the tyranny we have become. Mutual defense pacts, foreign investment, and trade deals outweigh democracy and freedom of the press, when 2 authoritarians meet. There is no horror too deep. “Things happen.”

Federal Govt. Shutdown is closing DC’s public art museums.
Our thoughts:
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Olga Albizu, “Radiante” (1967), on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

#womenartists #arthistory #Smithsonian #GovtShutdown #nationalgallerydc

Didn’t know the Nats had a Nazi outfit…. #noBrownshirtsDC #occupiedDC @nationals.com #noKings

Let's take comfort in the dissents, protests, and examples of our forebears. Artist, educator, and advocate Vivian Brown explained her works as "my kind of protest," from which the exhibition at the Phillips Collection takes its name. Read our review at almahilma.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/l...

#nokings rally today in Grand Rapids, MI!

Chakaia Booker exhibition at the National Gallery of Art!

How the artist creates these delicate, multiple textures from something as rigid, yet unwieldy and polluting as discarded tires and treads is amazing. Our review:
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Chakaia Booker, Acid Rain (2001)

Alma Thomas now has a street named for her in DC!

Raised in DC, she taught art in the public schools, earned art degrees from Howard Univ. & American Univ., owned a gallery, & frequented integrated arts spaces like #PhillipsCollection & #LittleParisGroup.

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Who is #HilmaafKlint 's art for?
The chair of the foundation safeguarding her legacy says it's only for fellow believers, in spite of Hilma's efforts to exhibit internationally
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Hilma af Klint, Altarpieces Series, No. 10 (1915). Oil and metal leaf on canvas.

History and Resistance: Quilts as Protest Art

Prepare to be blown away by the Renwick Gallery’s exhibition, "We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists." #SmithsonianAmericanArt #Blackwomenartists
Sylvia Hernandez, Flint Water (2017)

Hung Liu renders the overwhelming struggles of overlooked women in history. Yet Liu's images always include her distinctive visual vocabulary to situate the women in a historical context of strength and dignity, even at the most hopeless of moments. Street Library (2013)

Enjoyed Sonia Turk Delaunay and Mainie Jellett’s works @guggenheim Orphism /Simultaneism exhibition! See it before it closes in early March!

Jellett, Composition (c. 1932) & Delaunay, The Bal Bullier (1913) respectively

"Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo" walks the viewer through 20th century art beginning in the 1920s. Read our review here:
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Miki Hayakawa, From my window (1935); HIsako Hibi, Autumn (1967).

RIP Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, artist and curator of Native American art. I fell in love with The Red Mean (1992) @smithartmuseum, was overjoyed @whitneymuseum retrospective in 2023, and relished the breadth of work, from sculptures and installations to paintings and prints, that she curated @ngadc