I came to Herstory hoping to see depth, guts, the ambition and potency of “The Dinner Party” and instead found nothing but surface.
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What if Radical Femmes Ruled the Heavens?
In Wynnie Mynerva’s The Original Riot, Eve and Lilith make a pact using Eve’s right rib, vowing to create a new world absent of patriarchal subjugation.
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Wangechi Mutu’s Corporeal Archaeology
In Mutu’s artistic universe, the human body, particularly the female or femme form, is a container for many possibilities.
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Searching for Brazilian Identity Between Performance and Life
Through regional music and dance Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca affirm as well as explore and subvert Brazilian identity.
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Kapwani Kiwanga Uses Daylight to Expose Racial Surveillance
Kapwani Kiwanga invites viewers to look with only the quiet glow of natural light seeping in through the skylights, illuminating a nuanced way of seeing race.
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Robert Colescott’s Indecorous Truths
Colescott’s use of stereotypes and humor continues to make viewers feel uncomfortable because it jabs indelicately at our complicity.
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We Need to Talk About the Middle Passage
Doreen Lynette Garner renders flesh in silicone with unforgiving realism, representing the pathology of colonialism, slavery, and white supremacy.
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Artist Spray-Paints Massive Graffiti on New Museum
It’s unclear how “Acer,” as the anonymous artist is known, evaded the museum’s security officers and surveillance cameras
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Lynn Hershman Leeson, in All Her Cyborg Glory, Gets a Retrospective
A foremother to young new media artists working today, Hershman Leeson has blazed a trail for more than five decades.
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On Grieving and Mourning With Art
Confronted with a new national consciousness around racial inequity, two New York City art exhibitions focus on mourning with varying degrees of success.
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Grief and Grievance Honors the Weight and Wake of Racial Violence
A prophetic document of our time, the New Museum exhibition calls attention to the weight of Black death not because it is new or salacious but because it remains urgent.
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Rhizome Board Member Resigns In Protest of Workplace Culture at New Museum
Art collector Seth Stolbun stepped down from the board of Rhizome, a New Museum affiliate, after a report revealed accusations of workplace harassment and unhealthy work conditions at the museum.
