Film Review
Bunny Yeager’s Feminist Pin-Up Girls
A new documentary, Naked Ambition, centers the photographer’s woman-forward approach to the nude subject.
Feminism
Book Review
The Fraught Rapture of Seeing Other Women Onscreen
Feminist film scholar Lori Jo Marso redresses misconceptions of the gendered gaze, parsing through the lessons we can learn from our exhilaration and unease.
Art
Was Freud a Feminist?
A new show at London’s Freud Museum throws feminist ideas at the wall to see what sticks.
Opinion
The Gestural Feminism of Iranian Women
The student who stripped her clothes to protest the country’s oppressive dress code fits into an evolving movement of body-based feminist activism.
Books
A Big-Tent Vision of Feminist Art That’s Still a Bit Too Small
Mothers of Invention tells the story of how the movements, media, and styles of the past 50 years were inspired by feminism — through mostly White artists.
Art
Erika Harrsch Has Always Been Political
The artist’s continued retrofitting of ideas has led to a body of work that feels sustained, powerful, and continually defiant of categorization.
Opinion
Tagging “Me Too” on a Courbet Is Not the Feminism We Need
Deborah De Robertis’s protest performance signifies precisely what is wrong with current feminist discourse.
Art
What’s Lost When Activist Art Enters the Institution?
The institutionalization of radical history in Women in Revolt! inevitably blunts the message, and streamlines the complex whole into a concise lineage.
Books
Celebrating Feminist Art’s Unruly Bodies
Art Monsters reassesses controversial feminist artists who turned to body-focused art to rebel against the societal norms eager to suppress them.
Art
When Feminism Ruled CalArts
The Feminist Art Program at CalArts produced some of the most well-known second-wave feminist artists and a diverse third-wave movement.
News
Femicide Artwork “Censored” From Greek Consulate in New York
Artist Georgia Lale’s flag artwork was removed from an exhibition following backlash from far-right Greek politician Dimitris Natsiou.
Art
50 Years Ago, She Broke Illustration’s Glass Ceiling
An exhibition of Barbara Nessim’s drawings contextualizes the artist’s graphic portraiture of women against the backdrop of shifting gender roles and equity in the US.