“The Voyage of the Sable Venus” is an epic written in one line. The poet ... that included a black female figure in any way, and wrote every title down, what would art’s epic sing then?

Some figures carrying swords in Mycenaean art could be women, and have a ritual character ... a detail typically associated with female representations in Minoan and Mycenaean iconography.

Stewart Gallery is opening “In Celebration of the Female Figure” Friday night, with works by Christus Murphy, Cynthia Erdahl, Carson Price, Barbara Muth and Kris Taylor. “From the beginning ...

At last, this work puts a female figure ... between art and the law, or how the image and law relate to one another." Photograph: By Yasunori Matsui / A female figure now sits atop the courthouse ...