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The Problems and Pleasures of an Activist Art Exhibition

by Billy Anania March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

I am often skeptical of protest art behind glass, yet I still cannot deny the pleasure of experiencing politically charged artworks in a venue making the effort.

Posted inBooks

Ana Mendieta, a Feminist Pioneer, in a New Light

by Ela Bittencourt April 3, 2020April 3, 2020

In Radical Virtuosity, Genevieve Hyacinthe brilliantly reframes Mendieta’s celebrated works, yet for a book so rooted in race, the final analysis feels only half-full.

Posted inIn Brief

Actress Ellen Barkin Reveals She Was Assaulted by Carl Andre in the Late ’70s

by Monica Castillo January 21, 2020January 21, 2020

Recalling an incident when working as a waitress at 22, Barkin says that Andre choked her over an issue with her service, connecting that assault with Andre’s alleged murder of his wife, artist Ana Mendieta.

Posted inArt

Artists Find Power in Erasure

by Cassie Packard January 3, 2020January 3, 2020

In Otherwise Obscured, effacement, redaction, and illegibility are positioned as tactics that artists can employ to combat, highlight, or heal sociopolitical invisibility.

Posted inArt

Feminist Video and Performance Art Thrives on TikTok

by Monica Castillo November 21, 2019

Teens are dancing to messages from their abusive exes, continuing the legacy of artists like Ana Mendieta and Suzanne Lacy.

Posted inArt

A Contemporary Approach to Religious Symbols

by Gabrielle Welsh September 25, 2019September 25, 2019

A small yet mighty exhibition, Fragments of a Crucifixion highlights moments of mourning, as well as joyful moments of faith and collectivity that continue in the face of traumas.

Posted inArt

Revisiting a Seminal Exhibition on “Third World” Feminist Art at A.I.R. Gallery

by Ana Tuazon August 30, 2018August 30, 2018

Dialectics of Entanglement: Do We Exist Together? revisits A.I.R.’s 1980 exhibition Dialectics of Isolation, important for its promotion of women artists of color at a time when the New York art world was painfully exclusive and discriminatory.

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The Pursuit of Art, 2017

by Thomas Micchelli December 30, 2017January 4, 2021

A year of truth-telling and electric painting.

Posted inArt

When Art Refuses to Let Go

by Thomas Micchelli September 23, 2017September 23, 2017

Delirious at the Met Breuer is an exhibition filled with beautiful but comparatively polite works by habitually transgressive artists.

Posted inArt

The Feminist Avant-Garde, Now More than Ever

by Thomas Micchelli May 20, 2017May 25, 2017

Their only solution was to make their revolution their own way, without help and without precedent.

Posted inArt

Franklin Furnace at 40: Still Radical After All These Years

by Edward M. Gómez April 15, 2017April 14, 2017

For Martha Wilson and her collaborators at the Franklin Furnace Archive in New York, the avant-garde spirit is alive and well, and as relevant as ever.

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Protesters Honor Ana Mendieta at LA Opening of Carl Andre Retrospective

by Matt Stromberg April 14, 2017April 16, 2017

Artists and activists gathered at MOCA Geffen to protest what they consider Mendieta’s erasure from the canon and the disassociation of her death from Andre’s story.

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