Tag Archives: feminism

Pictorial SpaceX

by Caitlin Cherry | May 30, 2019

Pictorial SpaceX

by Caitlin Cherry | May 30, 2019

Visual artist Caitlin Cherry connects her work to Donna Haraway’s 1985 essay, Cyborg Manifesto.

Whose Speech? Artists, Activists, & Being Heard: A Conversation Between Stephanie Syjuco & Astria Suparak

by Astria Suparak and Stephanie Syjuco | Sep 19, 2018

Whose Speech? Artists, Activists, & Being Heard: A Conversation Between Stephanie Syjuco & Astria Suparak

by Astria Suparak and Stephanie Syjuco | Sep 19, 2018

In this special extended interview, artist Stephanie Syjuco and curator Astria Suparak discuss the role of speech and protest in contemporary art and how working as women of color affects their ability to be heard.

Resisting Reductivism & Breaking the Bubble: An Interview with Barbara Kruger

by Ian Forster | Jan 26, 2018

Resisting Reductivism & Breaking the Bubble: An Interview with Barbara Kruger

by Ian Forster | Jan 26, 2018

In this rare interview accompanying a new Art21 film, Barbara Kruger shares her media diet, what she sees as art’s role in contemporary society, and the inspiration behind two of her earliest works.

Artist Introspectives

Touch/Don’t Touch

by Gabrielle Civil | Apr 19, 2017

Artist Introspectives

Touch/Don’t Touch

by Gabrielle Civil | Apr 19, 2017

Artist Gabrielle Civil shares the freedom her performance practice has brought her, and the frustration of dealing with oblivious racism in 2017.

Looking at Los Angeles

Kathleen Ryan: Weightless Again at Ghebaly Gallery

by Lindsay Preston Zappas | Mar 8, 2017

Looking at Los Angeles

Kathleen Ryan: Weightless Again at Ghebaly Gallery

by Lindsay Preston Zappas | Mar 8, 2017

Lindsay Preston Zappas reviews Kathleen Ryan’s recent sculpture exhibition at Ghebaly Gallery, “Weightless Again” —a reclamation of feminine modernism.

Memory at the Seams: Doris Salcedo’s Sumando Ausencias

by Anna Burckhardt | Feb 15, 2017

Memory at the Seams: Doris Salcedo’s Sumando Ausencias

by Anna Burckhardt | Feb 15, 2017

In Doris Salcedo’s public-art installation “Sumando Ausencias,” thousands of volunteers blanketed Bolívar Square with cloth containing the names of the victims of Colombia’s decades-long conflict.

#callresponse

by Tarah Hogue | Dec 26, 2016

#callresponse

by Tarah Hogue | Dec 26, 2016

Curator and writer Tarah Hogue shares her project “#callresponse,” an exhibition giving voice to the importance of Indigenous North American women.

Unapologetic: Women Artists and Power through Vulnerability

by Rachel Gagnon | Aug 31, 2016

Unapologetic: Women Artists and Power through Vulnerability

by Rachel Gagnon | Aug 31, 2016

A selection of quotes and artworks from ART21-featured women artists proving that vulnerability and weakness are by no means synonymous.

Speaking Without Words

by Siobhan Aluvalot | Jul 28, 2016

Speaking Without Words

by Siobhan Aluvalot | Jul 28, 2016

Part poetry, part proclamation, this experimental text by artist Siobhan Aluvalot reveals the motivations driving her work.

Writer-in-Residence

The Feminist Legacy in Radical Plastic

by Maggie Davis | Jul 14, 2016

Writer-in-Residence

The Feminist Legacy in Radical Plastic

by Maggie Davis | Jul 14, 2016

In this essay, Writer-in-Residence Maggie Davis explores the feminist inspirations for the exhibition “Radical Plastic,” opening Saturday.

Fame and Feminism: An Interview with Kate Durbin

by Lindsey Davis | Jul 12, 2016

Fame and Feminism: An Interview with Kate Durbin

by Lindsey Davis | Jul 12, 2016

With a merciless girliness, feminist performance artist Kate Durbin gently bridges the gap between exposed and hidden parts.

A Fat Brown Babe’s Guide to Exposure (in Five Acts)

by Virgie Tovar | Jul 5, 2016

A Fat Brown Babe’s Guide to Exposure (in Five Acts)

by Virgie Tovar | Jul 5, 2016

Virgie Tovar delivers a powerful proclamation against our patriarchal society’s demand to be thin.

How to use the F-word in 2016: The Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover

by Megan Johnston | Jan 28, 2016

How to use the F-word in 2016: The Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover

by Megan Johnston | Jan 28, 2016

Museum director Megan Johnston shares the inside scoop on organizing the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover, a series of exhibitions and events throughout Minnesota from January to March 2016.

“The Revolution Will Be Painted” Revisited

by Anne Sherwood Pundyk | Dec 7, 2015

“The Revolution Will Be Painted” Revisited

by Anne Sherwood Pundyk | Dec 7, 2015

Last year, as part of ART21 Magazine’s “Revolution” issue, feminist new genre painter Anne Sherwood Pundyk rewrote the lyrics to Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” to create …

New Kids on the Block

The Go! Push Pops on Future Feminisms

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Aug 18, 2014

New Kids on the Block

The Go! Push Pops on Future Feminisms

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Aug 18, 2014

Go! Push Pops—a transnational radical queer feminist performance art collective—creates “work that visually represents a future of feminism as a form of healing.”

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Speaking Truth to Culture: An Interview with Czech Curator Zuzana Štefková

by Marissa Perel | Mar 8, 2013

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Speaking Truth to Culture: An Interview with Czech Curator Zuzana Štefková

by Marissa Perel | Mar 8, 2013

Columnist Marissa Perel visits Czech curator Zuzana Štefková, “known for her challenging curatorial projects that work across religious, ethnic, and social divides.”

Pop Culture Pirate [interview w/Elisa Kreisinger]

by Nick Briz | Jun 30, 2011

Pop Culture Pirate [interview w/Elisa Kreisinger]

by Nick Briz | Jun 30, 2011

Elisa Kreisinger is a video remix artist, writer, curator, and educator whose work often addresses feminist, queer, and social issues. While there is a long history of appropriation-based political critique …