Let Them Eat Cake

On first sight, it’s pretty clear why Afro-Swedish male artist Makode Linde‘s performance art piece “Painful Cake,” which premiered at Sweden’s Moderna Museet for World ...Read More

Man as Object: Reversing the Gaze

“Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at,” art critic John Berger famously observed. Now some feminist artists are turning the tables in a new exhibit, ...Read More

Feminist Art Does It in Public

The exhibit “Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at The Woman’s Building,” opens tomorrow afternoon, October 1, in Los Angeles (and continues through January 28, 2012). Here’s a remembrance ...Read More

If Men Could Menstruate …

The Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) current exhibit, Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, in New York, concerns itself with the communication between people and ...Read More

Eternal Portrait of a Lesbian Marriage

Tomorrow, in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, artist Patricia Cronin will once again celebrate her future death and that of her longtime partner and fellow artist, Deborah Kass. Back in 2002, she ...Read More

Women Street Artists Break Into the Boy’s Club of Graffiti Art

Some of the best work in Art in the Streets, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles’ graffiti extravaganza, was made by women. Swoon’s towering white and silver Ice Queen manages ...Read More

We Heart: “Nerdy Misanthrope” Using His Art to Aid Cheerleader

If you’ve been following the case of Texas cheerleader Hillaire S., who was assaulted at a party by star athlete Rakheem Bolton and then kicked off the cheerleading squad for refusing to chant, ...Read More

!Women Art Revolution!

Marcia Tucker, founder of the New Museum in New York City, recalled her interview for her previous curatorial job at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1969 thusly: I said ‘Let me tell you ...Read More

Artist Challenges How Women Are Shamed About Eating

Growing up in America, we learn that sweets and junk food are “guilty pleasures.” Women, especially, are supposed to refrain from such indulgences. And, if they cannot—if they, for ...Read More

The “Art” of Exploiting Cambodian Sex Workers

Warning: Please be aware that clicking on many of the links in this post will lead to websites containing images that are NSFW and may be offensive and/or triggering. I consider myself fairly liberal ...Read More

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