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Art Historian + Author ⭐️ KIDS BOOK OUT NOW ⭐️ 📚 The Story of Art without Men 📚 How To Live An Artful Life 🎧 @thegreatwomenartists + Podcast
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TONIGHT 8PM! We got Louis + The Mooch on Portrait @artistoftheyear !! (Here's a lil outtake of us shielding from the rain...) TUNE IN ~ Sky Arts @realstephenmangan @officiallouistheroux @scaramucci 🔥
14 Oct 2026
LESS THAN A WEEK TO GO !! On your screens next Wednesday at 8pm @SkyArts 📺✨✨ New series of Portrait Artist of the Year with new fellow judges: @jonathanyeo @evalangret 💗 @artistoftheyear !! Glam squad: @katysparkesmua Styling: @leithclark
02 Oct 2026
A sneak peek inside The Story of Art Without Men 👀📚
On October 10, join author Katy Hessel (@katy.hessel) and illustrator Ping Zhu (@pingszoo) for a special family book talk with interactive discussion, drawing, and live illustration.
Spend the day at the Guggenheim! This interactive family program includes:
🌀 Museum admission
📕 A copy of "The Story of Art Without Men"
🖋️ Opportunity to meet and get the book signed by Katy Hessel
Get your tickets at the link in bio!
📸: Ping Zhu
01 Oct 2026
⭐️⭐️USA⭐️⭐️ The Kids Book is out on 6 OCTOBER!! 📚♥️ aaaand I'm going on tour across the East Coast. Kicking off NEXT SATURDAY at the @guggenheim 🗽🗽🗽 Come and join us. Every age welcome (7+) 😇 Linkinbio for info, tickets, pre-order!
NYC: Sat 10 October, 2pm: @guggenheim
(interactive family book talk and live art demo with @pingszoo ~ ticket price includes a book!) 📘
NYC Sun 11 October, 12pm: @mcnallyjackson Seaport (interactive family book talk)
DC: Sat 17 October, 11am: @hirshhorn
(Interactive Family Book Talk and live art demo with illustrator Ping Zhu)
MIAMI 😎 Sun 18 October, 11:30am: @icamiami (Interactive Family Book Talk)
NYC: Mon 19 October, 7pm: Barnes & Noble Upper West Side ~ very special in conversation with @cocomellors (teens and above!)
BOSTON: Sat 24 October, 2pm: @mfaboston (interactive family book talk!)
PHILLY! Sun 25 October, 1pm: @philamuseumart
(interactive family book talk)
It's going to be so funnnn :) come down + see u there! Book published by @w.w.norton @nortonyoungreaders 💝 • #WomenArtists
29 Sep 2026
Art Historian and Author Katy Hessel on The File
"In a way beauty felt like something that was unreachable because it was over there, and actually that's such a shame. If I could go back to that kid and tell her it can be so many different things I would. Why can't you just live with the fact that you are beautiful." - @katy.hessel
Interview: @emmachamptaloup
Motion and Photography: @jamesmsbarber
17 Jul 2026
On process.
Art historian, curator and writer Katy Hessel in conversation with David Olusoga, live at Hay Festival 2026.
30 May 2026
Dressed as a cow in Clive Bell's bedroom @charlestontrust festival !! 🐄📸 @stevenhattonphotography
29 May 2026
Aaaand THAT'S A WRAP !! 🎬🎬 Just finished filming the NEXT SERIES of Portrait @artistoftheyear with my fellow judges (!!!) @evalangret @jonathanyeo ~ & the best crew in the world ♥️ Coming soon to a screen near you 😎 styling @leithclark 💝
21 May 2026
TODAY on the GWA Podcast: a Venice special with LUBAINA HIMID ✨✨ who is representing Great Britain at this year's @labiennale with her installation: "Presenting History: Testing Translation" ~ LINKINBIO 🔗
Known for working in paintings, sculpture, installations, archives, and more, Himid – active since the 1980s, when she was established as one of the leaders and trailblazers of Britain's Black Arts movement – uses her art and her training in theatre to create all-encompassing works that tackle silenced histories.
(Go to ep. 33 to hear a deep dive into Himid's life and work; today focus on her pavilion for Great Britain!)
This year, Himid showcases large-multi-panel paintings drenched in her vibrant palette. You are first struck by architects, who lead you into rooms centred around kitchens and tailors’ workshops, with sound work that evokes an English summer day.
The exhibition, in conversation with the Pavilion's neo-classical structure, highlights Britain as 'welcoming and airy, brimming with potential', but - of course - there is an underlying sense of unease as the texts, images and sounds – in collaboration with Magda Stawarska – subtly introduce tension…
She asks questions throughout: can poison taste delicious? Is water always useful? Can flies settle here? But also: Where do you come from? What reminds you of home? Do you want to go back to the old place?
I asked her what she wants from visitors:
”...what I want from people that come is only that they come and that they bring as much of themselves as they can to it. Bring your old auntie inside your head to it. Bring some meal that you cooked with food that you bought in a market that vaguely represents what your uncle used to make on a Sunday. You know, bring all that with you and see if there's something we can exchange in the space.”
LISTEN NOW! • #LubainaHimid #WomenArtists
06 May 2026
Katy Hessel - author, art historian and the force behind The Great Women Artists - joins us Under the Cover to share some of her favourite books!
Katy is the author of The Story of Art without Men, which celebrates overlooked women artists and has just been published as an illustrated guide for children. She has also written How to Live an Artful Life, providing creative inspiration throughout the year.
It was an absolute treat to speak to Katy at the National Portrait Gallery in London and hear about rewriting art history, worshipping Katherine Rundell and the big-name book she couldn’t get through… let us know if you agree with her!
If you’d like to get hold of any of the books mentioned, you can order through the Under the Cover Bookshop.org link in our bio (affiliate) 🧡
PS watch until the end for a reveal of something exciting coming soon…
📜 Katy’s list:
The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel, and The Story of Art Without Men: An Illustrated Guide, with Ping Zhu
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
Flesh by David Szalay
Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
Football Legends: Bukayo Saka by Ben Lerwill
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
Chess by Stefan Zweig
Out of This Century by Peggy Guggenheim
Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell
Monuments and Maidens by Marina Warner
The Story of Art by EH Gombrich
02 Apr 2026
HATCHARDS!! 💕💕💕💕 @hatchardspiccadilly
10 Mar 2026
Today is World Book Day AND publication day for "The Story of Art Without Men: An Illustrated Guide to Amazing Women Artists" ✨🌍🌹❤️⭐️
Get your copy ~ illustrated by @pingszoo ~ now!! Or pick it up this Sunday 8 March at @Tate Modern for our mini launch at their Terrace Bookshop at 2.15pm 📚 All welcome!
This week we had a very special GWA Podcast episode with @katherine.rundell who spoke so amazingly about art, books, the power of imagination and the importance of children's literature (and why we should take them to galleries ~ swipe!) + listen via the linkinbio✨
05 Mar 2026
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