Women in Ties Have Agitated Fashion for Centuries. Why Does a Humble Strip of Fabric Hold So Much Power?
Paris, women needed permission from the police to wear a tie. The history of a revolutionary accessory—from ancient Rome to ...
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Are Hairstyles the Key to Unlocking Art History’s Most Famous Portraits?
Grand portraiture is a minefield for some noteworthy hair. Portraitists such as Thomas Gainsborough and Anthony Van Dyck paid ...
105 years later, efforts by Lexington women to earn voting rights still resonate
The Herald-Leader is celebrating Lexington’s 250th birthday by revisiting key moments in the city’s vibrant history, ...
Why the unicorn is an enduring symbol in art
The new film "Death of a Unicorn," starring Jenna Ortega, features the mythical beast as a brutal killer. "Death of a Unicorn ...
Conservatives are dragging toward same playbook that was used against them on college campuses
The need for a federal judge to step in to save a student-sponsored drag show at Texas A&M University this week shows that ...
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Expert Rediscovers Painting by Renaissance Master Lavinia Fontana, One of the First Professional Female Artists
The artwork had been hiding in plain sight in the archives of a provincial museum in France, where it will eventually go on ...
Loretta Walsh: Pioneering leap into Navy still inspires women today
Loretta Perfectus Walsh became the first woman to enlist in the U.S. Navy in 1917, opening doors for future generations.
The hidden hand of medieval female scribes
A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...
Opinion
These women with central Pa. ties contributed to suffrage, temperance, abolitionist movements | Column
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Agnes Kemp sought equal rights for women. In their travels, these 19th-century figures lectured about abolition, temperance and women’s suffrage to a variety of ...
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How an 18th-Century Female Physicist Broke Boundaries and Inspired the Generations Who Followed
Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...
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Lavinia Fontana Masterpiece Rediscovered After 150 Years in Museum Storage
The tender family portrait had been wrongly attributed to a male painter of the Northern Renaissance.
This is the party you get invited to when you’re a top VC&A customer
Among the most elite sororities are Kappa Delta, known for women with pageant-ready hair from old-money families, and Zeta ...