By championing work in two perennially overlooked forms, artists books and performance art, often by artists who themselves are overlooked, Franklin Furnace’s archive is a repository of what doesn’t easily fit.
Martha Wilson
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Martha Wilson Tries on Prescribed Female Roles, from Housewife to First Lady
An early proponent of feminism, Wilson has been exploring female identity in patriarchal society since the early 1970s.
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Jasper Johns’ Life and Work: A Conversation Between John Yau, Martha Wilson, and William Villalongo
Who gets remembered and how?
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Mira Schor and Susan Bee Discuss the Many Meanings of Art Writing
With Martha Wilson acting as a moderator, Schor and Bee discuss how and why in the 1980s they developed M/E/A/N/I/N/G magazine as a forum for and by artists.
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When Art Refuses to Let Go
Delirious at the Met Breuer is an exhibition filled with beautiful but comparatively polite works by habitually transgressive artists.
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Playing with Words in the Most Linguistically Diverse Place in the World
At Flux Factory in Queens, Tongue Tide treats other languages as treasure chests of unique expressions.
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A History of Performance Art as Protest at the 8th Floor
On April 26, Martha Wilson will bring together a slew of artist-activists for a teach-in.
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Franklin Furnace at 40: Still Radical After All These Years
For Martha Wilson and her collaborators at the Franklin Furnace Archive in New York, the avant-garde spirit is alive and well, and as relevant as ever.
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The Documents Left Behind from Live Performances
An exhibition explores how the remains of performance art memorialize the past and re-perform for new audiences.
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A Performance Counters Violence with Meditations on Empathy
On November 6, the Moving Company will stage a new performance, in which mover Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze will dance in cement shoes and yellow-feathered knee pads, while Tina Wang and Mor Mendel joust with fly swatters.
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Six Pioneering Feminist Artists Conquer New York
With recent statistics showing that only 31% of the solo exhibitions at NYC galleries are devoted to women, it comes as a pleasant surprise that over a two-month period this spring there are several exhibitions simultaneously showcasing the work of second-generation feminist artists.