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Ninth Street Women: Relishing Art, Reframing History

"Farol" by Elaine de Kooning (1958) — inspired by a bullfight and recognized for the artist's ability to capture motion (action) and blur the lines between the figurative and the abstract.

Mary Gabriel flips the popular narrative, allowing us to reassess the people, the art, and the moment — the rise of Abstract Expressionism — through the lens of the women who lived it and forced the art world to make space.