artists and diversity. this is the first room in which women artists appear. alex farquharson s been busy investing in art by women, including this new acquisition by mary beale, the most prolific female portrait painter of the 17th century. of course this is a man s world, in society as a whole and in terms of the arts scene. these are artists that have been marginalised from art historical accounts, and unfairly marginalised. and it s so important that the work is seen in the context of their male peers. tate now displays its art within its wider historical context, with new commissions alongside for the first time. nils norman s radical pamphlets show the turbulence of an age of civil war in a way the paintings don t. and there is new labelling too, a reminder of what life was really like for workers idealised in this stubbs painting, and slaves depicted amongst the dancers in this 18th century agostino brunias.
and society of its times. tate britain s also giving greater prominence to works by women artists and diversity. this is the first room in which women artists appear. alex farquharson s been busy investing in art by women, including this new acquisition by mary beale, the most prolific female portrait painter of the 17th century. of course this is a man s world, in society as a whole and in terms of the arts scene. these are artists that have been marginalised from art historical accounts, and unfairly marginalised. and it s so important that the work is seen in the context of their male peers. tate now displays its art within its wider historical context, with new commissions alongside for the first time. nils norman s radical pamphlets show the turbulence of an age of civil war in a way the paintings don t. and there is new labelling too, a reminder of what life was really like for workers idealised in this stubbs painting, and slaves depicted amongst the dancers in this 18th
IN THE SPRING OF 2020, much of America succumbed to the lures of a rural life, one far from the madding crowds, one better suited to sheltering in place. Maybe you know someone who finally delivered on that promise to move to the Hudson Valley for good. While the then-widespread speculation about the decline of urban life seems to have been overblown, we are now in the midst of a so-called Great Resignation, in which the distraction and self-degradation of “hustle culture” may be yielding to slower forms of labor and community. Far from unprecedented, the present shift echoes the countercultures