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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
Detail of Mary Cassatt’s painting of a young mother sewing with a child resting on her lap; the room has a vase of vibrant flowers and a bay of windows overlooking a green wooded area.
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Katy Hessel and Laura D. Corey
March 8, 2024
Composite image showing front and side views of Mrinalini Mukherjee’s freestanding fibre red and purple sculpture depicting unfurling forms that resemble female genitalia.
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Katy Hessel and Brinda Kumar
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
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 Rosa Bonheur’s painting titled “The Horse Fair” featuring a group of lively horses at an outdoor market in Paris.
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Katy Hessel
March 8, 2024
The architect Frida Escobedo smiling at artist Sheila Hicks, who holds a microphone. They are seated with a light blue background behind them.
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Celebrate International Women’s Day with fiber arts pioneer Sheila Hicks and Frida Escobedo, lead architect of The Met’s new Tang Wing.
March 8, 2024
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