Painted Ladies
We've recently learned that our friend Wangechi Mutu is among the over one hundred women artists to be featured in the Brooklyn Museum's spring exhibition Global Feminisms, which is really no surprise given that Wangechi is pretty much everywhere at the moment. The show, which will open in March 2007, is being hailed by the museum as the first major show to examine and present feminist art (or "gender-aware" art as the curators also say) from an international perspective. The exhibition is co-curated by Dr. Maura Reilly and feminist scholar Linda Nochlin.
Global Feminisms also marks yet another major change in departments at the Brooklyn Museum; the exhibition will act as an inaugural reception for the new Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Reilly will act as permanent curator of the center.
Back in 1977, the Brooklyn Museum hosted the touring exhibition Women Artists: 1550-1950, the first exhibition that surveyed the art created by Western women. That show was organized by Linda Nochlin with Ann Sutherland Harris. The Brooklyn Museum is seeking to make Global Feminisms an extention of that effort.
The show also includes Kenyan countrywoman Ingrid Mwangi whom we've been keeping an eye on lately. Approximately 11 of the artists are US-born. Among the range of media represented are photography, sculpture, installation, and web-based art.
7 November 2006