Women in the Arts Magazine

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NMWA’s magazine, Women in the Arts, amplifies our mission by publishing articles on the collections and special exhibitions, artist interviews, highlights of museum history and achievements, a calendar of events, and more.

Magazine Issues

Summer 2025

Niki de Saint Phalle In Print / Guerrilla Girls: Making Trouble / A recent acquisition by LaToya M. Hobbs

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The cover of Women in the Arts Summer 2025 issue with a colorful painting of an abstracted figure holding scales.

Spring 2025

Uncanny / Artist’s books and history in A Radical Alteration / Celebrating Joan Mitchell’s centenary / French painter Suzanne Valadon

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The cover of Women in the Arts Spring 2025 issue with an image of a highly realistic mask of a light-skinned face with dark brown eyebrows and eyelashes that appears to be sleeping—its eyes and mouth are closed and relaxed. The mask hangs on a white wall.

Winter/Year in Review 2024

Samantha Box: Confluences / New artists’ books in the Library and Research Center / Achievements from the recent fiscal year, including unforgettable art and programs, as the museum reopened after renovation

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The cover of Women in the Arts Winter/Year in Review issue with an image of a dark-skinned woman looking at her reflection in the mirror. In front of her are pink flowers, a red and white round tin box, and a clear mug with dark brown liquid.

Fall 2024 Magazine

Suchitra Mattai: Myth from Matter / Celebrating the return of NMWA’s public programs / Archive Transcribe-a-thon

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Cover of Women in the Arts magazine with a vintage tapestry depicting three women and one man in a pastoral scene. One woman sits atop a swing while the others sit beneath her. The man holds the rope of the swing. Bright thread and beads are sewn over the original tapestry, and all four figures skin and hair have been darkened with brown and black thread.

Summer 2024 Magazine

Featured films in the second season of In Focus: Artists at Work / A painting by Amy Sherald on view / A conversation with poet Alexa Patrick

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Spring 2024 Magazine

New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 / New research for nmwa.org / A conversation with artist Yuko Mohri and curator Sook-Kyung Lee

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Winter/Year in Review 2023

Celebrating NMWA’s grand reopening / Exhibitions featuring art by Hung Liu and Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella / Achievements from the recent fiscal year as the museum carried out mission-related programming and completed a top-to-bottom renovation

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A magazine cover with a painting with layered, dripping textures shows a Chinese woman with dark hair wearing a traditional dress. She gazes toward the viewer. In front of her, a tree branch extends upward, and a bird perches on its tip.

Fall 2023

Contemporary sculpture in The Sky’s the Limit / Reopening after major building renovation / New artists’ books / New video series to greet visitors

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Summer 2023

Preparations for the museum’s October reopening / A first look at the remixed, thematic collection galleries / Behind the scenes of New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024

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A magazine cover with an image of a marble Niki de Saint Phalle sculpture depicting an abstracted, voluptuous figure with a pregnant belly. The figure is covered in bright patterns and posed stepping forward, with raised, outstretched arms.

Spring 2023

Plans for the museum’s October 21 reopening after renovation / A conservator discusses treatments to two NMWA paintings / Groundbreaking photojournalist Jessie Tarbox Beals

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Winter/Year in Review 2022

New public art at NMWA / Achievements from the recent fiscal year in programs, collection growth, and more / Updates on the museum’s renovation

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Magazine cover features a painting by Amy Sherald of a an expressionless young woman with medium-dark skin tone rendered in grayscale.

Fall 2022

Gifts of art from the collection of late museum founders Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay / A new installation at the museum by Katharina Cibulka / Renovation updates

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Summer 2022

NMWA works on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art / Digital engagement and #5WomenArtists / Renovation updates / New works in the collection

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Spring 2022

NMWA works on view at the National Gallery of Art and New Museum / A vibrant new mural at NMWA by MISS CHELOVE / Renovation updates / #5WomenArtists spotlight

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Winter/Year in Review 2021

Contemporary prints and multiples in Positive Fragmentation / Museum renovation progress / Achievements from the recent fiscal year in exhibitions, programming, collection growth, and more

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Fall 2021

20th-century photographer Ruth Orkin / Museum renovation preparations in the Library and Research Center / Online exhibitions / Paintings by Loïs Mailou Jones and Céline Marie Tabary

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Summer 2021

Renovating the museum’s historic building / Her Flag / Art in the “Built to Order” collection gallery / Photographs by Rania Matar / Alice Neel

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In Memoriam

The life and legacy of NMWA Founder Wilhelmina Cole Holladay / Building an inspired collection of historical and contemporary art by women / Reflections on a visionary leader

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Winter/Spring 2021

Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend / Reclamation: Recipes, Remedies, and Rituals / Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark / Paintings by Hung Liu

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Fall 2020

Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020 / Artists’ books by Julie Chen / Murals for social justice / Pottery designed by Daisy Makeig-Jones

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Women in the Arts magazine cover features a close-up look at an artwork made of cut paper insects in metallic hues of gold and copper.

Summer 2020

Alma Woodsey Thomas conservation research / Linda Nochlin’s archives / #5WomenArtists and digital engagement / a new Joana Vasconcelos sculpture

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Women in the Arts magazine cover features an abstract painting composed of brightly colored, lozenge-shaped brushstrokes in vertical stripes of navy, purple, turqouise, yellow, orange and red.