Earlier this year, I received an email suggesting that I commission a well-known critic to write a takedown of British art historian Katy Hessel’s latest book, How to Live an Artful Life (2025). This ...

In September, curator and art historian Katy Hessel, known for her popular Instagram account @thegreatwomenartists, published her first book, The Story of Art Without Men, in the U.K. Now, the ...

“I could just talk about art all day,” says Katy Hessel, grinning as she sips her tea. We’re at the Morgan Library in Manhattan on a beautiful spring day, discussing, yes, art—and all the ways Hessel ...

Ernst Gombrich’s The Story of Art, originally published in 1950, has gone through many expansions and rewritings, and it has been much translated. It thus is as near to a universally recognized ...

How many women artists can you name? That was a question Katy Hessel, then a 21-year-old art history major, asked herself. The results were disappointing. And so she set about learning and teaching ...

Within an endless procession of museum halls filled to the brim with celebrated male painters, it is an exciting novelty to spot just one or two works by some relatively unsung woman artist. Hanging ...

Hanging out at MoMA with Katy Hessel, a British art historian, podcast host and curator of the Great Women Artists Instagram account. By Dayna Evans On a Wednesday in March at the Museum of Modern Art ...

In addition to curating the Timothy Taylor show, Hessel has stayed busy at home in London producing the Dior Talks podcast on feminist artists, which launched in March. For recent episodes, she’s ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, five museums in the United States and the United Kingdom are debuting curated audio guides dedicated to the work of women and gender nonconforming artists. The ...

Are you familiar with The Great Women Artists Instagram account yet? Launched by Katy Hessel in 2015 after finishing her art history degree, her daily posts of, yes, work by great women artists, have ...

The new book examines the power of patriarchy in the art world. Telling 'The Story of Art Without Men' with Katy Hessel Art historian Katy Hessel had just left an art show in 2015 when she realized ...

Art historian Katy Hesselhad just left an art show in 2015 when she realized that out of the thousands of works present, therehadn’tbeen any art in the collection made by a woman. And Katy’s ...