In a kind of parody of tolerance, the Reagan - era culture wars attacked
artists across gender and racial lines.
Not exact matches
This major touring exhibition reveals how
artists on the margins enabled new paradigms of inclusion; galvanizing the mainstream art world to embrace difference and diversity
across race, region, class, age and
gender.
Extraordinarily diverse in terms of geography, age, and
gender, the selected
artists — identified by the five Award Jurors and 10 international Nominators — have selected 61
artists from over 30 countries
across five continents for this year's Absolut Art Award.
The
artist and philosopher Adrian Piper's direct and subtly intellectual approach to unpacking the tangled issues of race,
gender, identity, and belonging has inspired a generation of socially - conscious
artists across all media, although her impact is just now being fully recognized: she was the recipient of the Golden Lion for best
artist at this year's Venice Biennale, and MoMA has recently announced plans for, in the words of Robin Pogrebin in the New York Times, «the most comprehensive exhibition to date on the conceptual
artist,» set to open in 2018.
Lucid Dreams and Distant Visions: South Asian Art in the Diaspora, organized by Asia Society Museum with the support of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, considers the work of nineteen contemporary
artists from the South Asian diaspora who explore notions of home and issues relating to migration,
gender, race, and memory
across mediums and aesthetics.
Recent responses have come from Jerry Saltz, who has ranted in numerous articles about the inequity of women in the arts, artnet News, which has run several stories that have brought
gender imbalance in culture into mainstream dialogue, and in March, shortly after launching the lauded Women, Arts and Social Change exhibition, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC) launched # 5womenartists, a month - long invitation to post information about women
artists, past and living, in a communal effort to trumpet them
across social media; participants included the Guggenheim and the New Museum in New York, and the Los Angeles Country Museum in LA.
For more in this series, see my thoughts on Art itself, Appointment only exhibitions, Artificial Intelligence replacing
artists, Everyone's a Critic, Photo London, The Turner Prize, Art for art's sake, Conceptual art is complicated, Condo, How performance art is presented in museums, Frieze week floozies, too much respect for an
artist's legacy, opinions not being welcome, an exhibition
across three countries, tackling race and
gender in art,
artist - curators, art fair hype, top 5s and top 10s, our political art is terrible, gap left by Brian Sewell, how art never learned from the Simpsons, why artspeak won't die, so - called reviews, bad reviews are bad for business, the $ 179m dollar headline, art fairs appealing to the masses, false opening hours, size matters and what's wrong with video art.
This major group exhibition of contemporary women
artists,
across mediums, styles and genres, coincides with and responds to The Fine Art Society's, London, representation of the radical
artist Gluck (1895 - 1978) who, determined to be known for her art not her
gender, cropped her hair, and adopted the androgynous name with «no prefix, suffix or quote.»
The New Museum's Trigger:
Gender as a Tool and as a Weapon is a remarkable spread
across disciplines, too dense for a single visit and almost confrontationally heavy on works by younger
artists.
For more in this series, see my thoughts on Private views, Art itself, Appointment only exhibitions, Artificial Intelligence replacing
artists, Everyone's a Critic, Photo London, The Turner Prize, Art for art's sake, Conceptual art is complicated, Condo, How performance art is presented in museums, Frieze week floozies, too much respect for an
artist's legacy, opinions not being welcome, an exhibition
across three countries, tackling race and
gender in art,
artist - curators, art fair hype, top 5s and top 10s, our political art is terrible, gap left by Brian Sewell, how art never learned from the Simpsons, why artspeak won't die, so - called reviews, bad reviews are bad for business, the $ 179m dollar headline, art fairs appealing to the masses, false opening hours, size matters and what's wrong with video art.
Made in China, Australia considers the work of contemporary
artists across a range of mediums and disciplines,
genders and generations.
Alongside newly commissioned essays by leading international scholars and works by contemporary visual
artists, key historical texts trace a trajectory of writings
across religions, cultures,
genders and ages to reflect the breadth of conflicting and constantly shifting attitudes towards the veil.
The group exhibition, Face Forward: Self - Image & Self - Worth, includes
artists working
across many platforms to address issues of identity, race,
gender, status and societal values.
Across the five generations of
artists represented here, one can chart when and why certain labels (abstraction, expressionism, portraiture;
gender, race, sexuality; drip, stain, pour) have historically been embraced or rejected.
The
artist explores a number of social stereotypes in order to critique and challenge disparities that cut
across gender, race, class, and age.