Tamara Talbot Rice
Russian scholar of Russian and Byzantine art
Russian scholar of Russian and Byzantine art
Ground-breaking female director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982-2008.
British Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art curator, Renaissance jewelry specialist.
British classical art historian, museum curator and archaeologist.
Harriett Jolliff was an Arkansas-born entertainer best known as the wife and muse of comedian Lenny Bruce.
Mexican playwright, essayist, and fiction writer
1700s middle-class English woman
True crime aficionado Michelle McNamara spent years investigating the man she called the “Golden State Killer.” Thanks to her work, former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo was identified as the perpetrator of at least thirteen murders, fifty-one rapes and 120 burglaries across California between 1974 and 1986.
Ukrainian first lady
At a time when American filmmaking fell into the category of either classical Hollywood or realist documentary, Maya Deren conceived of a third, poetic, alternative.