We Wanted a Revolution at the Brooklyn Museum tracks the shape-shifting radicalism of black women artists, authors, filmmakers, dancers, gallerists, and public figures between 1965 and 1985.
Feminism
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An Illustrated Guide to Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?”
First published in ARTnews in 1971, Nochlin’s essay is considered to be one of the first major works of feminist art history.
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Wikipedia Art and Feminism Editing Sessions Around NYC
Art+Feminism takes over New York City with six Wikipedia edit-a-thons over the next week and a half, including the biggest one at MoMA on March 11.
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Searching for a Global New Feminism
An exhibition attempts to find the new feminism in work by artists from around the world. It falls short of its task but raises some questions worth asking.
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Sexism and the Canon: Three Female Artists Reflect on ‘Women of Abstract Expressionism’
DENVER — The paintings in Women of Abstract Expressionism at the Denver Art Museum are rich with emotion, monumental in scale, and totally original.
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“You Have to Get Past the Fear”: Joan Semmel on Painting Her Aging, Nude Body
Joan Semmel has created a distinctive body of work largely centered on painted images of her own body.
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Art Is Genderful! An Artist’s Notes on Navigating a Sexist System
A lot of people mistake my work for a man’s.
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Miriam Schapiro’s Road to Feminism
There is a particular thrill in catching an artist in one of those rare moments when they are radically altering the premise of their own work and walking out on a limb, before the direction’s meanings and effects have become codified within their own practice.
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Feminist Zine Makers Discuss Their Illustrated Sex Dreams, Queer Armenian Mag, and More
From illustrated sex dreams to a guide to “queering herbalism” to comics about the trans Armenian-American experience, the fourth annual NYC Feminist Zine Fest was a showcase of radical, DIY intersectionality.
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Dreamscapes for the 21st Century at the Volta Art Fair
Plunge into dreams at Volta NY 2016.
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A Mother Lode of a Show About Motherhood
MILAN — The most startling pairing in The Great Mother, an exhibition that tracks the iconography of motherhood in art and popular culture from 1900 to 2015, is a sculptural stand-off between Sarah Lucas and Thomas Schütte.
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A Look at the Suffrage Movement With the UK’s First Female Photojournalist
In 2009, a striking collection of some 2,000 black-and-white photographs went up for auction at Sotheby’s, but unfortunately it failed to sell.