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In the 1930s, Lotte Errell and her husband, also a photographer, traveled the world, visiting countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The outbreak of war in 1939 found the now divorced and…
Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868) achieved celebrity first as an actress, later gaining some literary following for her poetry. Uncertainty surrounds Menken’s family history, as she claimed various…
The Settlement Cook Book, first published in 1901 as a pamphlet, soon became a mainstay of American domestic culture and was published in more than forty editions before its final publication in 1991…
In The Costume Party, George Segal switched from making all white sculptures to using colors. The six figures—Anthony and Cleopatra, Superman, Pussy Galore, Catwoman, and Bottom from Shakespeare’s…
Red Stripe Kitchen is from Martha Rosler’s Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful, a series created to protest the Vietnam War and the ways in which Americans distance themselves from violence…
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel wrote numerous songs, piano compositions, cantatas, and other musical works, which were not published in her lifetime. The illustration on this hand-written manuscript…
When Claude Cahun took this self-portrait photograph, she was still Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob and had not yet adopted her new gender-neutral name. She is wearing a pinafore, sitting quietly at a desk…
Hittite couple sacrificing to bull, Alaça Hüyük, Turkey. In this relief, a king and queen, or perhaps a priest and priestess, stand at an altar and make an offering before a bull. On the symbolism of…
“Standing Behind Old Jewish Ladies in Supermarket Lines” is a comic from Harvey Pekar’s autobiographical comic series American Splendor, which focused on everyday life in Cleveland, Ohio. Not an…
Self-Portrait in Blue Bathroom, London, 1980 is the first of a series of photographs called The Ballad of Sexual Dependency that Goldin created over ten years, beginning in 1976, and which was…
