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Alethea Pace bends downwards, with both arms outstretched against a cloudy, blue sky
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During her CPP artist residency, Alethea Pace collaborated alongside her community to reclaim the history of the Enslaved African Burial Ground in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx.
March 27
A child holds up a multicolored paper ornament in a fuzzy image
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Photographed in Ahmedabad, India, this short film follows a Dalit woman as she makes a bean-bag parrot from scavenged materials.
March 21
A sheet of paper with a figure and cutout outfits for dressing up paper dolls.
Historic paper dolls from the Drawings and Prints collection tell a story of conspicuous consumption and evolving social values.
Liliya Dashevski
March 12
A smiling woman, her face turned downward towards an open book.
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During her CPP residency, artist OlaRonke Akinmowo challenged herself to create a writers collective as an expansion of the mission of The Free Black Women’s Library.
March 12
Shadowy image of a nun, wearing a habit with her midriff exposed. Thick paint strokes in yellow and gray frame the figure, and the entire composition is set against a background of deep red.
A new opera at The Met Cloisters reinterprets the Mexican writer’s magnum opus.
Emery Kerekes
January 23
Woman sitting, black and white shading. She looks to be in distress.

A selection of the artist's prints candidly portrays the experience of women during periods of political oppression.

Jennifer Farrell
December 9, 2024
Printed graphic image of a white woman seductively holding a poppy flower. The Woman and the peony are an orange color and the background of the image is black and the woman's dress and hat are created just using orange outlines.
How did women emerge as active creators of art and visual culture in the nineteenth century?
Shannon Vittoria
April 19, 2024
Profile view of Farah Siraj smiling, while sitting with a guitar in front of a microphone.
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Named Jordan's “Musical Ambassadress,” Farah Siraj’s unique idiom melds influences from Arabian music, flamenco, and jazz.
March 25, 2024
Two members of Alsarah & the Nubatones in performance. The figure on the left is singing, while the figure on the right plays guitar.
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Founded in 2011, Alsarah & the Nubatones have dubbed their sound “East African retro-pop.”
March 18, 2024
A female figure in a black burqa is set in a white space. Text in red reads "Masaawi Haqooq" in Urdu script.

Take a closer look at two feminist artworks from the 1980s
by Lala Rukh and the Guerrilla Girls.

Kristin Plys
March 8, 2024