December 24, 2010
News flash: either the staff of Gagosian Gallery hasn’t been keeping up with the recent controversy over the removal of David Wojnarowicz’s video Fire in My Belly from the exhibition Hide/Seek at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian, including the spectacle of another peaceful art activist being ejected and “banned for life” from the [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged Anselm Kiefer, David Wojnarowicz, Gagosian Gallery, Gerhard Richter
December 12, 2010
Three modest political gestures have deeply touched me this past week: Thursday, December 9th, in London, there was a teach-in at The National Gallery in conjunction with the street demonstrations of students protesting the tripling of educational fees by David Cameron’s government. There is a general impression, which I often encounter among my students, that [...]
Posted in art | Tagged Activism, censorship, David Wojnarowcz, Edouard Manet, Political Art, Senator Bernie Sanders
December 5, 2010
Today, December 5, 2010, would have been my mother Resia Schor’s 100th birthday. This is not just a nostalgic realization looking back at a deep past, as it was for me in 2004 which was my father Ilya Schor‘s centennial: he had died in 1961 so forty-three years separated his death from his centennial. My [...]
Posted in art | Tagged crafts, feminism, Ilya Schor, Naomi Schor, Resia Schor, Richard Howard, sculpture, Tom Knechtel, women artists
November 22, 2010
The sad news of the death of British psychotherapist and feminist art historian Rozsika Parker provides the opportunity to bring her work to the attention of anyone interested in feminism, art, and women artists. Parker was a pioneer feminist art theorist and activist from the early 70s to the 90s, often collaborating with the art [...]
Posted in art | Tagged art history, feminism, Feminist art history, Griselda Pollock, Old Mistresses, Rozsika Parker
October 31, 2010
These are not the most positive feeling days, as we contemplate the possibility of an imminent Republican/Tea Party take-over of Congress. But I can understand why many Obama voters are disappointed. I am too. I think he would have been much more successful with what are now termed/tarred as “liberal” policies. I was depressed that [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Eleanor Roosevelt, FDR, JFK, Jr., Martin Luther King, Mid-term elections, RFK
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