April 14, 2012
One of the strangest yet most memorable evenings of my life is associated in my mind with a book by an author who wrote as “Miss Read.” The book, Thrush Green, depicts a day in the life of a small English village, in fact, May Day, a day of festival. I had bought it because [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged "Miss Read", Dora Saint
April 1, 2012
I really felt that my mother understood me when, at the beginning of one of our many summers together in Provincetown, as I was getting the house and garden ready, I overheard her telling a friend on the phone, “You know, Mira is very busy, she hasn’t started working yet.” When I say “my work” [...]
Posted in art, General, painting | Tagged A.K. Burns, Andrea Geyer, Audrey Chan, Caitlin Rueter, feminist art, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, Maureen Connor, Mira Schor, painting, Suzanne Stroebe, Ulrike Müller
December 9, 2011
Just over a year ago I wrote In Memoriam: Rozsika Parker, Feminist Art Historian and activist to mark the death of the noted British feminist art historian and psychotherapist Rozsika Parker (December 27, 1945-November 5, 2010). A conference in honor of her work was held in London December 10, CELEBRATING ROZSIKA PARKER 1945 – 2010, [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged feminism, feminist art, Feminist art history, Griselda Pollock, Old Mistresses, Rozsika Parker, The Feminist Art Project
November 15, 2011
When the NYPD raided the Occupy Wall Street Encampment at Zuccotti Park this morning, they tossed the 5,554 books that were assembled from donations into The People’s Library, an extemporaneous institution with a proper librarian and its own website, into dumpsters. According to the story as reported this morning on mediabistro.com: “According to the city’s [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged Leo Steinberg, Occupy Wall Street, The People's Library
October 12, 2011
This is a slightly expanded version of a review that appeared on The Huffington Post on October 12th. Every once in a while events in the art world and events in the “real” world mesh in a particularly fortuitous way. This is the case of the conjunction of Living as Form–an art exhibit taking place [...]
Posted in art, film, General | Tagged Creative Time, La Commune, Living as Form, Nato Thompson, Occupy Wall Street, Peter Watkins, Politics, Superflex
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