feminist art

August 25, 2022 by Andrea Kirsh

Exhibition catalogs document important feminist art

Andrea Kirsh reviews two catalogs documenting and contextualizing exhibits of art by feminist artists of different eras and art genres.

April 11, 2019 by Andrea Kirsh

Artists united by opposition in ‘Artists Respond, American Artists and the Vietnam War 1965-1975’ at Smithsonian American Art Museum

Andrea Kirsh reviews “Artists Respond: American Artists and the Vietnam War 1965-1975” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, on view from March 15, 2019 – August 18, 2019.

October 14, 2018 by Sydney Cox

The Plant That Heals May Also Poison, Ree Morton lights up the ICA

New Artblog contributor, Sydd Cox takes in the retrospective of Ree Morton’s playful body of work, on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art through December 23, 2018. “The Plant That Heals May Also Poison” includes sculptures and installation works from Morton’s brief but fruitful career infusing post-minimalism with idiosyncratic material riffs on the maternal.

July 22, 2016 by Andrea Kirsh

Ephemeral Bodies – Reassessing the Art of Carolee Schneemann and Joan Jonas

This monograph is an invaluable record of Jonas’ work. Along with that on Schneemann, above, they offer two crucial pioneering artists’ solutions to a very current question: the ephemerality of performance art and the possibility of extending the life of the form without distorting the artist’s ideas.

April 8, 2013 by Jennifer Zarro

That Person Who is Your Creation – Iranian feminist art at the Asian Arts Initiative

March 4, 2013 by guest writer

Wangechi Mutu’s Afro-feminist works inaugurate Leonard Pearlstein Gallery’s great new space at Drexel

April 22, 2012 by Andrea Kirsh

Carolee Schneemann’s Correspondence (and anticipated visit to Philadelphia)

March 4, 2012 by Andrea Kirsh

Suzanne Lacy in Print and in Person; from the Feminist Studio Workshop and the Women’s Building to Otis College of Art and Design

June 1, 2011 by Andrea Kirsh

Monographs on Birgit Jürgenssen, Nancy Spero and Hannah Wilke

May 8, 2010 by Andrea Kirsh

Lil Picard and others in New York