It’s next to impossible to walk through “Costume Art,” the Met’s blockbuster fashion exhibition, as an impassive observer.

Last week, many eyes were on Chappell Roan’s red-carpet ensemble at the Grammy Awards: a topless, diaphanous burgundy gown, of a piece with her burgundy-dyed tresses and suspended from her nipple ...

Women in art, both as a compositional motif and as creators, is an expansive field in the history of art. Societal and cultural perceptions of women often shape their representation—from objects of ...