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Detail of a quilt by Emma Civey Stahl depicting various floral designs and scenes of life during the Civil War in square and circular vignettes.
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Katy Hessel and Amelia Peck
March 8, 2024
Detail of Leonora Carrington’s self-portrait of her sporting white jodhpurs and a wild mane of hair; she’s perched on the edge of a chair with her hand outstretched toward the prancing hyena and her back to two horses: a tailless white rocking horse flying behind her and a galloping white horse visible in a curtained window.
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Katy Hessel
March 8, 2024
Emel Mathlouthi in performance, standing in front of a microphone with arms outstretched.
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Emel Mathlouthi's viral anthem of the Arab Spring earned her the title “voice of the Tunisian revolution.”
March 8, 2024
Katy Hessel stands in the sunlit Greek and Roman galleries at The Met Museum.
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Traverse the Museum’s galleries highlighting remarkable achievements by women artists.
Katy Hessel
March 8, 2024
Two marble busts of Native American figures, Minnehaha and Hiawatha.
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Katy Hessel and Lisa E. Farrington
March 8, 2024
Detail of Wangechi Mutu’s bronze sculpture of a seated female figure; the entire figure is decorated in draped coils and the mouth is shaped like a flat polished disk.
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Katy Hessel, Wangechi Mutu, and Brinda Kumar
March 8, 2024
A female figure in a black burqa is set in a white space. Text in red reads "Masaawi Haqooq" in Urdu script.

Take a closer look at two feminist artworks from the 1980s
by Lala Rukh and the Guerrilla Girls.

Kristin Plys
March 8, 2024
Detail of Firelei Báez’s painting of woman figure camouflaged in an expanse of dense shaggy textures and colors.
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Katy Hessel and Firelei Báez
March 8, 2024
Allison Rudnick and Katy Hessel speak in front of of the print artwork "Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into the Met Museum?" by the Guerrilla Girls.
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Katy Hessel and Allison Rudnick
March 8, 2024
Detail of Marie Denise Villers’s portrait of a young woman artist seated and sketching at her easel.
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Katy Hessel and Kathryn Calley Galitz
March 8, 2024