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An Open Book: Judy Chicago’s “The Flowering”
Posted: July 20, 2021
Category: Book Reviews
Happy birthday, Judy Chicago! In honor of the artist’s 82nd birthday, we dive into her new autobiography, a candid reflection on a life dedicated to feminist art.
A light-skinned woman with red, cropped hair sits on a plush grey chair on a stage. She looks to the left smiling, with her hands clasped. She wears a

Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry
Posted: November 21, 2017
Category: Book Reviews
The next time you visit NMWA, come to the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center (LRC) to see new books on women in the arts, as well as reference...

Photographer Lori Grinker Documents Life “Afterwar”
Posted: November 10, 2016
Category: Book Reviews
Learn about photographer Lori Grinker and her book Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict, which features portraits and first-person testimony chronicling the lasting traumas experienced by soldiers.
View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.

See and Be Seen: Diane Arbus
Posted: August 30, 2016
Category: Book Reviews
“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know,” said Diane Arbus (1923–71), who obsessed about the secrets of others while carefully...
Several black and white photographs hanging on a white gallery wall.

Recent Acquisitions at the LRC: The Agonizing and Absurd Moments of Palestinian Life
Posted: June 27, 2016
Category: Book Reviews
The next time you visit NMWA, come to the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center to see new books on women in the arts, as well as reference books, artists’ books,...
A gallery view of a black wall with a large photograph of a woman. The woman is wearing a long black dress and a head scarf. She is standing in the ocean, surrounded by waves. On the right wall is a text that says "She who tells a story".

Recent Acquisitions at the LRC: Their Stories Through Her Lens
Posted: May 19, 2016
Category: Book Reviews
The next time you visit NMWA, come to the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center to see new books on women in the arts, as well as reference books, artists’ books,...
A gallery view of a black wall with a large photograph of a woman. The woman is wearing a long black dress and a head scarf. She is standing in the ocean, surrounded by waves. On the right wall is a text that says "She who tells a story".

Feminism and Daring: Cataloguing Niki de Saint Phalle
Posted: October 29, 2015
Category: Book Reviews
Saint Phalle may be best known for exuberant mosaic sculptures known as her “Nanas,” several of which were showcased as the inaugural works in NMWA’s New York Avenue Sculpture Project....

Recent Acquisitions at the LRC: You Are You
Posted: September 30, 2015
Category: Book Reviews
The next time you visit NMWA, come to the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center to see new books on women in the arts, as well as reference books,...
A bookshelf packed with colorful books about women artists.

Louise Bourgeois: By the Book
Posted: August 13, 2015
Category: Book Reviews
The exhibition catalogue Louise Bourgeois. Structures of Existence: The Cells (Prestel Publishing and Haus der Kunst, 2015) showcases the artist’s work creating Cells, a series of architectural sculptures that she...
Print with a vertical block of blue sandwiched between strips of black. Spiraling, tube forms of grey, red, white and dark blue occupy the central blue strip. Various sizes, the forms are arranged in two blocks on each side, with one large form and one tiny meeting in the center.

Recent Acquisitions at the LRC: Spirit of Caesar, Soul of a Woman?
Posted: July 1, 2015
Category: Book Reviews
View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.