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Artsy: Why are there so many great women video artist?
A Brief History of Women in Video Art Artsy Editorial By Kat Herriman Jan 13th, 2016 5:00 am In the 1960s, following the post-war advent of television in America, video cameras became available to consumers and quickly found their way into the hands of the international art scene. Lauded as the grandfather of video art,…
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Artsy Editorial: On Louise Fishman’s Hard-Won Task: Making Feminism and Abstract Expressionism Play Nice
Artsy Editorial By Alexxa Gotthardt Published: Nov 9th, 2015 11:35 pm Featured Photo by Brian Buckley. Courtesy of Cheim & Read, New York. Read full article on artsy.net On an unseasonably warm fall day, Louise Fishman, a 76-year-old painter with a shock of short white hair, a fanny pack slung at her hip, and…
Read MoreWise Buys: 50 Women Artists Worth Watching
published by Art+Auction, 05/09/14 2:45 PM EDT Read the full article at BblouinArtinfo.com Wouldn’t it be nice to think that a gender-delimited list is no longer relevant? It’s true that to be a practicing woman artist today is hardly the struggle it would have been in Mary Cassatt’s era. Women artists are actively acquired…
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Study Finds Gender Gap at the Top Museums
Article by HILARIE M. SHEETS MARCH 7, 2014 read original article here Women run just a quarter of the biggest art museums in the United States and Canada, and they earn about a third less than their male counterparts, according to a report released on Friday by the Association of Art Museum Directors, a professional…
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101 Women Artists Got Wikipedia Pages This Week
From ARTnews 101 Women Artists Who Got Wikipedia Pages This Week By Robin Cembalest Posted 02/06/14 The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was an international initiative to bring women’s voices to the online encyclopedia–as editors and as subjects Last Saturday, about 600 volunteers in 31 venues around the globe engaged in a collective effort to change the…
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Five Feminist Texts Today: What it Means to be a Feminist in the 21st Century?
by Vanessa Garcia As I start my year as writer in residence at Girls’ Club, I’m sitting here thinking about feminism. I’m thinking about what feminism means today. Whose contributing to it; whose writing about it; whose pushing buttons, and starting important conversations? Here are five “texts” I’m considering as my “top five feminist…
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Girls’ Club named in New Times Broward/Palm Beach’s Best Of
Representing a year’s worth of research into what’s great in Broward and Palm Beach counties, are your virtual equivalent of a hot streak.
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Anne Tschida writes about Girls’ Club publication Frances Trombly: Paintings
Arts writer Anne Tschida discusses the last hold out of literary digitization in her review of Girls’ Club’s first self-published book and exhibition catalog, Frances Trombly: Paintings, on the Knight Foundation blog. Read it here.
Read MoreArt critic Anne Tschida writes about Frances Trombly: Paintings
Is a blank canvas empty of art? See for yourself with a solo show from Miami’s Frances Trombly at the Girls’ Club in Fort Lauderdale (the first solo show at the relatively new exhibition space, made possible from a $10,000 Knight Arts Challenge grant). Called “Paintings,” the excellent, subtle show forces you to think about…
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Acoustic Aesthetic, a response to Suzanne McClelland: Enough Enough Orlando Museum of Art June 30-September 6, 2001
Girls’ Club Creative Director responds to works by New York painter Suzanne McClelland that in a mid-career retrospective exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art. McClelland’s work was included in the Girls’ Club exhibition Under the Influence. Read the text here.
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Women Under the Influence by Michelle Weinberg
A companion essay to the Girls’ Club exhibition Under the Influence by Girls’ Club Creative Director Michelle Weinberg. Read it here.
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Jane Hart’s Strange Trip
“Friends and colleagues who really know me can tell you that for many years my principal mantra has been a single word, “collaboration.” So begins Hollywood Art and Culture Center curator and artworld polymath Jane Hart’s narrative, written on the occasion of her co-curating Girls’ Club’s exhibition Under the Influence. Read the rest here. image…
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