“Portrait” changed literary culture. It is also pure pleasure to read. The Silent Woman By Janet Malcolm (1993) 2. The silent woman at the center of Janet Malcolm’s book is the American poet ...

After listening to Jess Phillips’ International Women’s Day speech earlier this year, Henny Beaumont decided to start painting the portraits of the women who had been lost to male violence.

A Slavic eulogist in a Japanese kimono. A half-naked artist in an unusual, not-so-subtle depiction of herself. A woman battering her own image with one self-portrait after another, in a manner that ...

The term "Moorish Woman" in the title suggests that the woman was from the northwest region of Africa and of the Muslim faith. This beautiful charcoal likeness, used in the broadcast program and ...

To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence featured more than 120 portraits and ...

It was so freaky, it was shocking," he told Business Insider. "I never looked at my portraits of women in technology the same way after that." The underrepresentation of women in tech is an issue ...