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Why Were These Women Buried With More Than 270,000 Beads?
At a 5,000-year-old tomb in Spain, researchers found what is likely the largest known collection of beads ever discovered at ...
The Viking age is welcoming a new kind of hero: women
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...
The artist giving centuries-old scroll painting a feminist twist
Artist Citra Sasmita imagines a world populated entirely by women in her momentous painted scrolls, part of a new exhibition at London’s Barbican. The contemporary artworks are a twist on traditional ...
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See the Hidden Portrait of a Mysterious Woman Discovered Beneath a Picasso Painting
Researchers have uncovered a hidden painting beneath Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto, revealing a mysterious woman who had been concealed for more than a century. The discovery ...
French Artist Prune Nourry Turns Female Trauma Survivors Into Modern-Day Venuses
Through her thought-provoking practice, New York-based artist Prune Nourry challenges perceptions of femininity, the sacred and the body’s resilience, as seen in her new exhibition in Paris.
Portrait of mystery woman found beneath famous Pablo Picasso painting, conservators say
A portrait of a mystery woman was found beneath Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" by the Courtauld ...
Mysterious Portrait of a Woman Discovered Beneath Painting from Pablo Picasso's Blue Period
"Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money," the institute explained Historians ...