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Ghost of a Dream and Elizabeth Mumbet Freedom at the new MassArtArt Museum
as Imna Arroyo’s work, taken as a whole, creates a puzzle of intersecting chronologies, which appear to form the subjective representation of an aesthetic philosophy that reaches toward celestial planes. Humberto Figueroa Iroko, Tree of Life, p. 56 Imna Arroyo bridges art and spirituality in a deeply personal and effective art. […]
Observe these two portraits On the right is the feature image of the Metropolitan Museum of Art current exhibition of the work of Alice Neel “People Come First” It is identified as a portrait of “Elenka”1936, about which there is no information except that she “presumably numbered among the several bohemians with […]
Provocative artists in several shows at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and the Henry Art Gallery
“Emotional Numbness, the Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems” This exhibition is in Tehran, Iran, but available to see anywhere! It is a collaboration between US based group WEAD, Women Eco Artists Dialog and artists in Tehran, Iran. You can see two excellent online tours of the exhibition here […]
In case you are yearning for a trip to get away from our crazy election or now to celebrate it, go to Mad Art (325 Westlake Avenue N, open Thurs, Fri, Sat noon to 5 and by appointment necessary) Marela Zacarías brings us the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Xochicalco, a Mesoamerican […]
Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness South African superstar artist Zanele Muholi bursts out of the Jacob Lawrence and Gwen Knight corner gallery at the Seattle Art Museum: “I’m reclaiming my blackness.” Their exhibition “Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness,” spills into four adjoining spaces. First, we see the huge signature self-portrait […]
Dmitri Prigov, avant garde conceptual artist, in an exhibition in London.
Deboarah Faye Lawrence’s exhibition at the small and appropriately named Bonfire Gallery surrounds us in an intense way with our brilliant flag collage protests.
Margaret Fuller, pioneering feminist, journalist, philosopher of the Transcendental circle, drowned off the shore of Fire Island in 1850.
El Presente at El Museo del Barrio features the Young Lords of 1969-71, their activism and their art, a wonderful piece of history.
A visit to the home of contemporary Turkish artist Tomur Atagök provided me with new insights into her paintings and collages about politics and nature.
the subtle and beautiful exhibition “Constructs” at the Wing Luke Museum features interactive installations by Asian Pacific Women Artists ranging from a canvas house to calligraphy carried into the landscapes of Seattle. Each installation is both personal and universal in their implications.
We can see the state of the earth and our spiritual crisis in the work of Rameschwar Broota and Nalini Malani at the Kirin Nadar Museum
Feminist artist Gogi Saroj Pal based in Delhi addresses violence against women in her new work.
Under My Skin Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century at the Wing Luke Museum includes a stimulating and poetic group of worksby 26 artists in many media. IT is not to be missed and more than one visit is neciessary.
Lynn Hershmann Leeson Women Art Revolution tells the canonical history of US feminist art. Where are the other histories of feminist art?
New Geographies of Feminist Art: China, Asia+ the World raises important questions about feminism today and presented some crucial artists.
Women Photographers with roots in South Asia and Afghanistan show challenging work about cultural contradictions and Tanis S’eiltin, Tlinglit installation artist challenges fixed ideas on Indigenous culture.
Art by Women everywhere in Seattle provokes us to think about what they are saying about themselves and the world.
Experimentation with classical media in music, theater and writing can be as subversive and confrontational as street protests.
Feminist Art 2007 A Political Analysis Let us look at the two new feminist exhibitions WACK at the LA County Museum of Art and Global Feminisms at the Brooklyn Museum. To a certain extent the covers of the two catalogs tells us everything that we need to know. On one cover is a detail of […]