This exhibition at the Guggenheim Bilbao (22 October–27 February 2022) includes work by more than 100 women artists, making the case that the development of abstraction was far more multifaceted than the single-track story, with the (predominantly male) Ab-Ex movement at the apex, that has traditionally been presented in art history. The artists on view range from Georgiana Houghton, whose abstract spirit drawings in the mid 19th century predate Kandisky’s earliest abstractions by half a century, to Judy Chicago and other feminist artists in the 1980s; there is also a broad global perspective, incorporating work from Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. Find out more from the Guggenheim Bilbao’s website.
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The many faces of Mary Magdalene