At the Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago, an expansive, century-spanning show charts the period of art when “homosexuality” was a new concept.

This June, Gertrude is launching the Queer Icons collection, an online exhibition celebrating the cultural contributions of LGBTQ+ artists, figures, and community. The Queer Icons collection features ...

The creator at the forefront of modern art, she declared, “is an outlaw until he is a classic”. In the last decade of her life, Stein set her sights on her legacy.

ertrude Stein is, famously, one of those authors whose name is better known than her works. This was so during her lifetime, as the biographer Francesca Wade demonstrates in her readable and ...

“Gertrude Stein Has Arrived”, read the tickertape snaking around the New York Times building, flashing breaking news to all who passed through Times Square. Over seven months, starting in October 1934 ...

Before long, their shared quarters in Paris at 27 rue de Fleurus would become a showcase for their presciently selected modernist art collection (featuring Gauguin, Cézanne and Matisse when their ...

Gertrude Stein, as Francesca Wade puts it in this masterpiece of biography, was a character of “bewildering contradictions”. Depending on who you spoke to, she was either a genius or a charlatan.

In 1926, Gertrude Stein took to the stage at Oxford University to deliver a lecture – later published as ‘Composition as Explanation’ – that she hoped would change the course of her floundering ...

Gertrude Abercrombie papers, circa 1880-1986, bulk 1935-1977. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Gertrude Stein with some of the pieces in her art collection. | Heritage Images/GettyImages Stein moved in with her brother at 27 rue de Fleurus in Paris’s sixth arrondissement in 1903.

Can an audience expecting the unexpected still be surprised? If history and the calibre of talent involved are any judge, the upcoming Of Sound Minds production called Time for Gertrude Stein will ...