SELECTED PRESS ARTICLES

2023

• Hyperallergic – “50 Years Ago, She Broke Illustration’s Glass Ceiling” By Rhea Nayyar, 12/7

• Dart – “Thursday, November 16, 6-8 pm; Barbara Nessim | Drawings at Barbara Nessim” by Peggy Roalf

2021

• AI-AP presents DART Design Arts Daily – “Barbara Nessim’s Workspace” by Peggy Roalf, 4/30

2020

• PRINT Mag blog – “The Daily Heller: Barbara Nessim’s Little Red Books” by Steven Heller, 12/15

• “A New L.A. Show Highlights the Importance of Barbara Nessim’s Early Drawings” by Madeleine Morley, 3/28

• Apartamento Magazine – “Barbara Nessim” by Leah Singer

2016

• Riposte Magazine, Issue 6 – “Gloria Steinem & Barbara Nessim” by Kate Bolick

2015

• i-D Magazine – “Gloria Steinem and Barbara Nessim on Friendship and Their First NYC apartment” by Kate Bolick

• Bard Graduate Center – “Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life” 8/19/14 – 1/11/15

• Metropolis Magazine blog – “Barbara Nessim’s Illustrated Life” by Zachary Edelson, 1/7

2014      

• Ms. Magazine blog – “Barbara Nessim: Five Feminist Decades of Art” by Sheila Weller, 12/31

• Print – “Nessim & Steinem: Writers, Artists, Activists, Role Models” by Ellen Shapiro, 12/10

• Huffington Post – “How to Be a Revolutionary Feminist Artist, While Hardly Noticing” by Priscilla Frank, 10/21

• Time Out – “Barbara Nessim interview: ‘Since I love what I’m doing, why should I stop at any age?’ by Ned Dymoke, 8/18

• The Atlantic – “50 Years of Reinventing Illustration” an interview by Steven Heller, 8/18

• ArtLyst – “Barbara Nessim: First US Retrospective Explores This Pioneering Feminist Artist Illustrator” 8/13

• BCS blog – “An Artful Life” by Catherine Mason, 2/4

2013       

• New York Times – “Illustrating Her Own Narrative” by Carol Kino, 3/21

• The Guardian – “Illustrator Barbara Nessim: ‘I was just steering my own ship’” By Hermoine Hoby, 1/4

• The Upcoming – “Exhibition review: Barbara Nessim – An Artful Life at the V&A” By Melanie Weaver, 2/18

• ArtLyst – “Gloria Steinem and Zandra Rhodes Pay Tribute to Artist Barbara Nessim” 2/16

• London Evening Standard – Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life – image gallery” 2/14

• Artlyst – “Barbara Nessim’s Provocative Feminist Drawings and Paintings V&A London” 2/20

• Victoria & Albert Museum – “Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life” 2/15

• Victoria & Albert Museum – Press Release “Barbara Nessim Gives Archive to V&A”

• DART: Design Arts Daily – “Barbara Nessim at the V&A”, by Peggy Roalf, 4/22

• Artists in the City – Blog, “Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life” 3/14

• ARTnews – “An Illustrated Life” by Barbara A. MacAdam

• Huffington Post – “One of The First Prominent Female Illustrators Tells Her Story” by Priscilla Frank, 11/26

• New Museum – Studio visit, Barbara Nessim

2009      

• DART: Design Arts Daily – “Barbara Nessim’s Model Project at DFN,” by Peggy Roalf, 11/30

• Artnet – featured in Artist Work Catalogues

2001

• Communication Arts Magazine – “Barbara Nessim” by Anne Telford, 12-page retrospective on work March/April

VIDEOS & PODCASTS

2022: DIGITAL ART: Los Angeles ACM SIGGRAPH x EZTV/CyberSpace Gallery, “The SECOND of FOUR – The 1990’s”

2021

• Sighs and Whispers Podcast, “Episode 21: Barbara Nessim”

• The Illustration Department Podcast, “Barbara Nessim: Illustrator, Fine Artist, and Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame Inductee”

• Society of Illustrators, 2020 Hall of Fame Inductee

• Victoria and Albert Museum, “Barbara Nessim, An Artful Life”

2015: Winsor & Eaton Brand Ambassador

SPEAKING PANELS

2018: SVA Theater – “Gloria Steinem & Barbara Nessim in conversation” NY, NY

2014: Bard Graduate Center – “Gloria Steinem in Conversation with Barbara Nessim” NY, NY

2013: The Brooklyn Museum, “Barbara Nessim from There to Here” lecture