In 1976, activists Ruth Iskin, Lucy Lippard, and Arlene Raven sent pink postcards to hundreds of artists: “If you consider yourself a feminist,” the postcards’ prompt read, “would you respond by using ...

Jang Pa, "Lady-X No. 5" (2015) (photo by Hongsuk Kim, courtesy the artist) Kim Hong-hee illuminates a vision of Korean art history in which no one is othered in Korean Feminist Artists: Confront and ...

Last month, a pair of climate activists attacked a painting known as “The Rokeby Venus,” by the Spanish master Diego Velázquez, which hangs in London’s National Gallery, using hammers to smash the ...

Art and feminism : an ideology of shifting criteria / Cornelia Butler -- Plates -- Artist biographies -- Chronology through cartography : mapping 1970s feminist art globally / Marsha Meskimmon -- The ...

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut is revisiting its landmark 1971 feminist art exhibition “26 Contemporary Women Artists” with a new twist. Opening next summer, the museum will put ...

Foreword / Griselda Pollock, Nadia Radwan and Mandy Merzaban -- List of plates -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Transnational feminisms and the decolonialisation of the ...

The Russian feminist performance art collective Pussy Riot is set to be the subject of a new scripted TV series about its cofounder Nadya Tolokonnikova. The activist is an outspoken critic of Putin ...

Content warning: this article contains sexual imagery that may be inappropriate for some readers. We had no idea who Anita Steckel was when we stepped into Stanford Art Gallery. Not until we were ...

VENICE, ITALY - 1968 : Peggy Guggenheim is sitting on a gondola travelling on the Venice canal across from her museum, she is dressed in blue clog and on her side is her pekingese dog; behind her is a ...

There came a point when Lauren Elkin realized her book-in-progress was becoming a blob. As the writer Chris Kraus defines it: “the book as Blob, swallowing and engorging … Unwise and unstoppable.” ...

With the growing visibility of gender-nonconforming and transgender people, the scope of feminism is fast evolving. Now two major museum shows in California explore the impact on art. By Jori Finkel ...

In the first century of the third millennium, art by women is finally being regarded with the seriousness it deserves. Last year the National Gallery of Australia presented Know My Name, a mammoth ...