Art
An Annual Feminist Editing Session Takes on Wikipedia’s Gender Problem
For the past five years, a room full of laptop-lugging feminists has staged an “Edit-a-thon" to broaden the Free Encyclopedia.
Feminism
Art
The Black American Women Who Made Their Own Art World
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.
Art
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.
Art
The Multifarious Feminism of the Whitney Biennial
Through its feminist contributions, the exhibition offers a window onto some of our most pressing cultural concerns, as well as our shortcomings.
Art
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.
Art
Massive 'Nasty Women’ Art Show Raises $35K for Planned Parenthood Opening Night
Conceived as a response to the election, the fundraising exhibition includes nearly 700 artworks by female-identifying artists.
Art
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.
Interview
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.
Interview
"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.
Art
Perverting the Prescriptions of Womanhood
The Woman Destroyed, currently on view at PPOW Gallery, takes as its organizing theme the 1967 Simone de Beauvoir book of the same title, comprised of three stories that explore the personal crises of middle-aged and aging women.
Art
Art Is Genderful! An Artist's Notes on Navigating a Sexist System
A lot of people mistake my work for a man’s.
Art
South African Artist Nails It with Sculptures Made from Thousands of Press-Ons
These works suggest the uneasy relationship between sex, power, and desire that is brought to the surface by performed femininity.