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
February 26, 2011
When I was ending my work on A Decade of Negative Thinking by rewriting its introduction, President Obama had just been elected and for a selfish moment I actually worried that if the situation in the country improved as much as we all hoped that it would, the book I had literally spent a decade [...]
Posted in General | Tagged ACT-UAW, feminism, Planned Parenthood, Rep. Anthony Weiner, Rep. Charles Rangel, Rep. Jerry Nadler, Union activism, Wisconsin protests
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
May 23, 2010
The overall atmosphere of Friday’s symposium at MoMA, “Art Institutions and Feminist Politics Now,” was more low key than the 2007 MoMA symposium The Feminist Future: Theory in Practice in the Visual Arts. Although the museum claimed the event was sold out, the auditorium never seemed completely full and the overall sense of buzz was [...]
Posted in art | Tagged curating, feminism, feminist art, Ilse Bing, Kathy Halbreich, MoMA, photography, Womanhouse
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