A new £10 of Jane Austen was revealed on the 200th anniversary of her death. Austen is the first woman writer to be featured on British currency.

The Los Angeles Times reports on the new £10 note featuring Jane Austen

The Los Angeles Times reports that the note also features images of Queen Elizabeth II, Austen’s writing desk, her brother’s house, Godmersham Park, and Elizabeth Bennet. The Guardian comments on the note’s featured quote, an ironic line from Pride and Prejudice attributed to the character Caroline Bingley.

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The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts acquired 32 works of art, including work by Joan Semmel and Elizabeth Okie Paxton.

Artsy shares Karen Okonkwo’s website

Karen Okonkwo founded a new stock photography website to combat negative portrayals of black culture.

The University of Chicago Library receives a gift of nearly 500 never-before-shown Vivian Maier photographs.

Frances Gabe, known as the inventor of the self-cleaning home, died at the age of 101.

artnet explores the controversy surrounding Käthe Kollwitz’s socially engaged artwork.

Artsy celebrates Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden, a 14-acre park populated by mystical goddess sculptures in Tuscany.

The New Yorker highlights Charlotte Salomon’s life and work

The New Yorker discusses the work of German painter Charlotte Salomon, killed in the Holocaust, whose art has been overshadowed by her life and times.

Following news of the first woman cast as the lead in the BBC television show Doctor Who, the Huffington Post applauds the increased representation of strong women in the sci-fi genre.

Nontsikelelo Mutiti’s books designs explore African identity, police brutality, and the aesthetics of hair braiding.

Maia Evrona, a recipient of a 2016 NEA grant for poetry translation, discusses how eliminating NEA grants would have a detrimental impact on the arts.

The Huffington Post interviews Broad City actress Abi Jacobson about hosting A Piece of Work, a podcast collaboration between WNYC studios and MoMA.

Artsy highlights ten women artists who helped pioneer the Land Art movement, although they never reached the same level of fame as their male counterparts.

“We live in a ‘post-truth’ world, and the truth remains difficult to find,” says Maja Bajevic.

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Sarah Lucas responds to Auguste Rodin

Sarah Lucas challenges conventions of representation in Auguste Rodin’s works with a contemporary female perspective, on view at the Legion of Honor Museum.

Teresa Burga’s exhibition at SculptureCenter “reminds viewers how narrow the contemporary art canon is, how male-driven, and how predominately focused on American and European artists.”

“Outsider artist” Beverly Buchanan’s sculpted houses are at home in Detroit, representing a longing for and connection destroyed or abandoned landscapes.

ARTnews describes Carol Rama: Antibodies at the New Museum “a show about unspeakable desires and screwed-up psychologies—everything that can’t be talked about.”

—Emily Haight is the digital editorial assistant at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

MoMA and WNYC Studios released the first episodes of the podcast A Piece of Work, hosted by Broad City star Abbi Jacobson. The podcast features Jacobson in conversation with museum curators and artists, as well as celebrity guests like Questlove, RuPaul, and Tavi Gevinson.

EW celebrates A Piece of Work

Focusing on a different theme in each episode, the down-to-earth podcast delves into some of the most frequently asked questions about modern art, highlighting the ways in which the works discussed are remarkable. New episodes are available every Monday and Wednesday.

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Google Doodle celebrates Japanese designer Eiko Ishioka on her 79th birthday.

The Los Angeles Times describes Analia Saban’s work as a “delicious, delirious, mind-bending experience.”

Morgan O’Hara hand copied the U.S. Constitution as her own personal form of artistic protest.

Colette Fu’s pop-up project

Colette Fu will build the biggest pop-up book in the world inside the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center.

Filmmaker Leanne Anderson worked with Google and the National Film Board of Canada to make Bear 71 VR, an interactive documentary tracking the life of one grizzly bear.

A letter written by Jane Austen in 1812, in which she criticizes another novelist, sold for more than $200,000 at auction.

Zanele Muholi’s series of 365 self-portraits express her personal experiences as well as media reports dealing with hate crimes and oppression.

The New Yorker reflects on Talking to Women, a short book of the edited transcripts of conversations that novelist and screenwriter Nell Dunn had with nine of her friends, published in 1965.

Creative Boom highlights Tove Jansson

Illustrator Tove Jansson’s retrospective showcases 150 works that trace her career, from surrealist-inspired paintings to satirical cartoons.

Marion Belanger investigates landscapes along the San Andreas Fault and the Mid-Atlantic Rift.

Director Reed Morano discusses the aesthetic and direction of The Handmaid’s Tale TV series, which was recently nominated for 13 Emmy awards.

The Atlantic explores the geological term roche moutonnée to describe glacial mountains. The article illustrates the term—often translated as “sheepback”—by using Rosa Bonheur’s painting Sheep by the Sea, in NMWA’s collection.

Dancer and choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili discusses a documentary about her breakout solo performance.

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Whitechapel Gallery features Emma Hart’s work

Whitechapel Gallery features Max Mara Art Prize winner Emma Hart’s new large-scale installation. The exhibition is the result of the artist’s time in Italy studying family psychology and the tradition of maiolica, tin-glazed pottery made in Faenza since the 14th century.

Bustle shares its takeaways from NSFW: Female Gaze, an exhibition at the Museum of Sex in New York City. The show features work by 20 women artists who interpret the female gaze.

Promises to Keep features self-portraiture and performance art by 12 Pakistani women artists.

The exhibition Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter explores the visibility and camouflage of the black female experience.

—Emily Haight is the digital editorial assistant at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Artsy features women Surrealists, including Hayv Kahraman

In celebration of the all-women exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, Dreamers Awake, Artsy explores the pivotal role that women have played in Surrealism.

“As the female body became the ultimate Surrealist object, it was mystified, fetishized, and othered,” writes Artsy. The exhibition features artists who confronted the perception of women as muses or seductresses and includes women Surrealists working today.

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The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) released a survey for 2017, including findings that show that although “the museum field has outpaced national salary growth rates, it also shows the vast disparities in compensation between different sectors of the museum industry.”

Hundreds of people congregated at the Dallas Museum of Art in an attempt to set a record for the largest gathering of people dressed like Frida Kahlo.

In anticipation of Yael Bartana’s upcoming film and performance project, What if Women Ruled the World, the Guardian asks women artists, writers, and leaders to envision a woman-led future.

Sophal Neak explores Cambodian culture and traditions through her photographic portraits.

A Boston mural by Ann Lewis amplifies the voices of incarcerated women.

Sydney-based artist Niharika Hukku translates finely detailed illustrations into painted ceramics.

The Guardian showcases Diane Tuft’s photos

Photographer Diane Tuft captures haunting images of the disappearing Arctic landscape.

Artsy features Surrealist Dora Maar, whose career was overshadowed by her lover Picasso.

Hyperallergic interviews Françoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman, the creators of the comics newspaper RESIST!.

A Boston mural by Ann Lewis amplifies the voices of incarcerated women.

Artsy highlights the women who helped establish iconic New York museums and galleries, yet whose contributions have been largely forgotten.

Iranian-born artist Sanam Khatibi re-imagines Renaissance paintings with women embracing power, violence, and sensuality.

A series of plates depicting famous women, part of a dinner service by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, is up for sale.

Artsy features Surrealist Dora Maar, whose career was overshadowed by her lover Picasso.

Costume designer Stacey Battat discusses her costume choices, design, and research for Sophia Coppola’s latest film, The Beguiled.

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Under-Song For A Cipher, on view at the New Museum

In Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Under-Song for a Cipher, on view at the New Museum, the artist “updates art’s oldest medium with an expert hand and a bracingly new message.”

The city of Wroclaw stages a retrospective of recently deceased artist Magdalena Abakanowicz, whose work is also currently on view at NMWA.

O’Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith: making modernism is on view at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, featuring more than 90 works by the 20th-century trailblazers. “These three in their own way had the courage to trust their convictions, understand the past but not be restrained by it. That’s a rebellious act,” says the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s senior director.

—Emily Haight is the digital editorial assistant at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.