Once denounced as “women’s work” with no artistic merit, embroidery is experiencing a revival, with a feminist punch.
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Judy Chicago’s Wo/Manhouse 2022 Could Use Some More Diversity
Although more inclusive than the original 1972 Womanhouse, the current remake would still benefit from more BIPOC artists, a broader intersectional dialogue, and a wider breadth of lived experience.
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Did Judy Chicago Just Troll Us?
Nowhere in the museums’ advertising blitzkrieg for the performance were we told to bring our wildfire-season masks as well as our covid masks, and covid masks don’t prevent smoke inhalation.
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Judy Chicago Retrospective Brings the Artist Full Circle
No one can deny that Chicago tackles “big” topics, but paradoxically it’s her most intimate and personal work that comes across as universal.
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Judy Chicago Desert X Artwork on Hold Following Claims of Environmental Concerns
The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens withdrew from its partnership with Desert X to host Chicago’s smoke-based artwork after a local journalist said it could endanger animals.
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Ain’t I a Womxn?: What Glitch Feminism Can Teach Us Now
Curator and author Legacy Russell reassesses gender reveal party wildfires, and the gendered “atmospheres” left in their techno-ecological wake.
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Judy Chicago’s Collaboration With Dior Is Beautiful, but Its Feminist Ambitions Are Questionable
Judy Chicago’s collaboration with the fashion house, a runway-installation called The Female Divine, includes a woven catwalk carpet and 21 banners embroidered with questions including “What if Women Ruled the World?”
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Inaugural Toronto Biennial Focuses on Climate While Dismantling Eurocentric Ideas
In The Shoreline Dilemma curators Candice Hopkins and Tairone Bastien offer a consideration of “climate” that spans the tangible environment to the social. Here are some highlights to catch before the Biennial closes on December 1.
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Feminist Icon Judy Chicago on Resisting the Cycle of Erasure
With three new solo shows opening this fall, Chicago doesn’t plan on slowing down anytime soon.
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An Exhibition of Work from the Birth Project by Judy Chicago Opens at the Harwood Museum in Taos
Images rendered in paint and needlework celebrate the birth process, from the painful to the mythical, and maintain relevance in 2019 America. On view from June 2 to November 10, 2019.
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A Captivating Biography Chronicles the Important Life and Work of Judy Chicago
Levin conducted 250 interviews with Chicago and her friends, family, colleagues, admirers, and critics, and had access to Chicago’s diaries and letters.
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Finding Intimacy in the Immensity of Infinity
In Intimate Immensity at PAFA, touch, materiality, the sensual, and the subversive are part of a feminist lineage.