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Are British Museums Still Sexist?
While New York City is awash in museum exhibitions of women artists this season — to say nothing of its many “Gallery Girls” — London is enjoying major retrospectives by David Hockney, Damien Hirst,...
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Elizabeth Sackler Endows Permanent Feminist Art Curator Position at Brooklyn...
Last night, during an evening of celebrations at the Brooklyn Museum that included its first ever Sackler Center First Awards and its annual benefit gala, the Brooklyn Artists Ball, Elizabeth Sackler —...
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Seattle Art Museum Rehangs Collection Sans Men for Presentation of Pompidou’s...
Last week the Seattle Art Museum opened its presentation of the Centre Pompidou’s 2009 exhibition “elles@centrepompidou,” a survey of works by female artists from the permanent collection of France’s...
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Women’s Group Protests Symbolism of Irish Immigrant Monument in Vancouver
Responding to an excess of “conventional phallic symbolism,” a women’s group called Remember Our Sisters (ROS) have called for dramatic revisions to a monument planned for Vancouver’s Thornton Park...
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Tajan Auction House Marks International Women’s Day With “Women Artists” Sale
French auction house Tajan announced that it will hold a “Women Artists” auction on March 8, in honor of International Women’s Day. The sale will be a collaboration between the Modern and contemporary...
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Egyptian Women Use Street Art Campaign to Promote Feminism in a...
Since the Arab Spring, street art has been an important way for Egyptian artists and activists to project their message. However, as with so many stories coming out of the Middle East, the narrative...
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Unauthorized FEMEN Calendar Combines Art History and Topless Protest
The Ukraine-founded, Paris-based feminist activist collective FEMEN, known for staging topless protests wherever women’s rights are being threatened, might want to stage a protest over this one:...
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Eyebeam Hosting Art and Feminism Edit-a-thon
On February 1, the Eyebeam Art+Technology Center in Chelsea will host a Wikipedia edit-a-thon — in which a group of people gather to edit, fill out, and add proper links and citations to Wikipedia...
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