Feminist Art Takes Center Stage January 29, 2007 Jill Feminists create art. I might just have to go out to Brooklyn for this.
I’ve been saying the real center of New York is Brooklyn rather than Manhattan ever since I started living here.
The Brooklyn Museum put “The Dinner Party” on display a few years ago, and man, you should have seen the crowds on First Saturday. God, that reminds me it’s probably been that long since I’ve been to the museum. Now that I have some time, I really have to get out there.
I assume the “have to go out to Brooklyn” was a good-natured joke, right? 🙂 Not an insult to all the Brooklynites who read feministe?
And for those in the midwest consider coming to Ann Arbor to see Venus of Willendorf – Redefining the Goddess – part of the national feminist art project Exhibition dates: February 9 through February 25, 2007 Exhibition site: Duderstadt Gallery, 2281Bonisteel Blvd, North Campus, University of Michigan. Hours: Monday through Friday, 12 to 6; Sunday, 1 to 5. Opening Reception: Friday, February 9, 5 to 8 PM. A juried show of regional artists takes as its starting point one of the oldest European figurative art forms, known as the Venus of Willendorf, considered to be a powerful goddess figure related to human fertility. The exhibit will examine contemporary visions of the goddess figure, notions of female beauty, conformity and nonconformity to the norm, and how we are shaped by cultural and personal expectations/ definitions of gender identity, “attractiveness” and body image. I’m one of the jurors.
excuse my ignorance, but who is the artist of that brilliant ‘If I had a Hammer…’ that is featured here and in the NYT article?