• Sign In
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
  • Sign In
  • Become a Member
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • News
  • Art
  • Books
  • Film
  • Performance
  • Opinion
  • Comics
  • Instagram
  • Mastodon
  • LinkedIn
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Tumblr
  • Features
  • Previews
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Opportunities
Skip to content
Hyperallergic

Hyperallergic

Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Martha Rosler

Posted inOpinion

How Both Paris Hilton and Martha Rosler Satirize Domesticity

Avatar photo by Lydia Horne October 18, 2021October 19, 2021

In Cooking with Paris, Hilton capitalizes on her portrayal of being a competent woman, while highlighting its anachronism through her absurd performance. Rosler manipulates the camera in the same way.

Posted inArt

Revisiting the Question “What Is Feminist Art?”

by Marisa Crawford October 15, 2020November 5, 2020

Building on an influential 1977 feminist exhibition, the Smithsonian’s updated edition takes a more inclusive approach, adding further nuance to the question of how and who gets to define feminist art.

Posted inArt

Redefining Identity Through Artists’ Books

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty August 31, 2019August 30, 2019

The works at Center for Book Arts embrace a wide spectrum of emotions and subjectivities outside of White-centric definitions of what an “American” is.

Posted inArt

Martha Rosler’s Wicked and Welcome Sense of Humor

Avatar photo by Ilana Novick December 13, 2018October 18, 2021

Rosler is not expecting art to end wars or change policy, but she wants to make the viewer pay attention to both in the first place.

Posted inArt

The History and Future of Feminist Resistance in Art

by Matt Stromberg February 20, 2018

At the College Art Association conference, artists, curators, and writers will talk about contemporary forms of feminist resistance and their historical precedents.

Still from Martha Rosler's South Africa: Crossing the River Without a Bridge (2016) (courtesy the artist and UnionDocs)
Posted inArt

A Screening of Martha Rosler’s Documentary on Housing Injustice in South Africa

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 21, 2017March 22, 2017

On March 23, UnionDocs is showing the latest version of a still-in-progress documentary Martha Rosler filmed in South Africa in 1990.

Posted inArt

A Showing of Art World Solidarity on Inauguration Day

by Andrew Weiner January 30, 2017February 4, 2021

Far from serving as an excuse for self-pity or left melancholy, the Occupy Museums event was an effective counter-inaugural: a ceremony marking a wider commitment to shared struggle.

Posted inArt

Watching Election Results Roll In While Surrounded by Political Art

by Ellen Pearlman November 10, 2016November 11, 2016

On Tuesday night at WhiteBox, artists used their work to sound a clarion call to political action.

Posted inArt

An Archive on Homelessness and the Housing Crisis Brought to Life

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney July 1, 2016

Gentrification and related issues of rising rents, the paucity of affordable housing, and the astronomical gap between the wealthy and the poor have been appearing in public discourse at an increasing rate, in exhibitions, in public art projects, in organized protests.

Posted inArt

Confronting Homelessness Close to Home, with Help from Martha Rosler

Avatar photo by Erin Langner February 29, 2016March 2, 2016

SEATTLE — “Home Prices Bring Smiles, Tears.” “Anti-Homeless Attacks Won’t Solve Problem.” When I saw these headlines running across the Seattle Times and Seattle Weekly newspapers earlier this month, a single sentence flashed through my mind, on repeat: “Housing is a human right.”

Posted inArt

Brooklyn Museum’s Activist Art Show Is a Messy Collision of Curation and Politics

Avatar photo by Tiernan Morgan February 10, 2016February 29, 2016

Agitprop! ought to be an outstanding exhibition of politically engaged art. A feverish amalgam of historic and contemporary artwork, the exhibition is undermined by an ambitious but poorly executed curatorial strategy.

Posted inArt

Playing Back 50 Years of Video Art

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 1, 2016February 1, 2016

EAST LANSING, Mich. — As digital and web-based forms of dissemination have competed with video art, what is left to distinguish it as a standalone genre?

Posts navigation

1 2 Older posts
Hyperallergic
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn

Hyperallergic is a forum for serious, playful, and radical thinking about art in the world today. Founded in 2009, Hyperallergic is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

  • Home
  • Latest
  • Podcast
  • Store
  • About
  • Support Us
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Sign In
  • Membership
  • Newsletters
  • Submissions
  • Careers
© 2023 Hyperallergic. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy