Art
Last of China's Lotus Feet Women
As the last generation of Chinese women with bound feet ages into their final decades, Jo Farrell set out to photograph the survivors of this brutal beauty tradition.
Feminism
Interview
In the Desert, a Vulture Spirit Follows a Trail of Femicide
Alone amid cacti, barbed wire, and phone lines, she is looking for something. The figure raises her rake — which seems like half claw, half witch’s broom — above her head, then returns to it to the sand.
Art
How We Got Here: Portrait of the Artist as a Queer Feminist
As long as I can remember, I’ve organized and been involved in artist groups and collectives.
Art
Art-Minded Feminists Become Wikipedians for a Weekend
When Shulamith Firestone wrote in 1970, “Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society,” she couldn’t have predicted she was referring to Wikipedia.
Art
The Many Faces of Suzy Lake
TORONTO — Artist Suzy Lake is many women at once in her work, but in life, she is a singular, deeply influential artist who began exploring the constructed nature of femininity and identity before Cindy Sherman ever donned a wig or set of buck teeth.
Art
Abstraction that Invites Speculation
When I walked into Emily Roysdon’s latest exhibition, If Only a Wave, at Participant Inc., I initially felt like I might not be able to decipher the work.
Art
The Coy Politics of Cheryl Donegan's Recycled Imagery
It made immediate sense to me that an artist who had cut her teeth making video works was able to transpose their sense of social commentary onto her formal works.
Art
When Women Fought Nukes with Anarchy and Won
Brooklyn's Interference Archive is showcasing the work of the women who occupied the area surrounding England's cruise missile installation, reshaping British public opinion and attracting international attention to the nuclear arms race.
Art
The Problem of the Overlooked Female Artist: An Argument for Enlivening a Stale Model of Discussion
Very recently I was told that a certain art magazine editor, who had deleted the feminist critique from a review I had written, “can only take so much feminism.”
Art
Past, Present, and Future Feminism
One of the most important tools for helping feminism reach a wide audience in the 1960s and '70s was the consciousness-raising (CR) group.
News
Feminist Activists Bleed and Defecate on Islamic State Flag #NSFW
Egyptian feminist activist Aliaa Magda Elmahdy made a statement against the Islamic State (IS) this past weekend with the release of an explicit photograph on her Facebook page.
Art
Feminist Protest Disrupts the Whitney Biennial
“Envision an art world utopia in which every artist, irrespective of gender or race, is valued for their work!” It was (and still is) a lovely sentiment, shouted by 14 female artists decked in flowers and gowns and leotards, and standing in the second-floor galleries of the Whitney Museum.