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Picks! (12/19-1/1)

Jessica Shaffer on December 19, 2008

re.act.feminism: performance art of the 1960s and 70s today just opened at Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Looking back to the 1960’s and 70’s, but also exploring how feminist art has made a resurgence today, this show features a video archive, an exhibition, and live performances by an international group of artists. If you are in the area, make sure to check this one out before it closes February 8th.

(Boryana Rossa and Ultrafuturo, SZ-ZS Performance, 2005. Courtesy of Akademie der Künste.)

Located in the bedroom of artist Blanka Amezkua, Bronx Blue Room Project has shown one artist per month in this non-traditional art space. This month, Jessica Lagunas shows her installation, “Días Especiales” (Special Days), which consists of a full size sheet fitted to Blanka’s bed with a collection of biopsy images of different days in a woman’s menstrual cycle. Menstruation, so often seen as something dirty that is to be hidden, will be represented positively in Amezkua's bedroom until December 29th.

(Jessica Lagunas, “Días especiales” (Special Days), New York, 2007-8, Print on Fabric: Etching, Image Size: 6.25” x 6”, Full fitted sheet: 54” x 76” x 13”. Courtesy of the artist.)

This Saturday, December 20th, will mark the last day of Geoffrey Chadsey’s solo-exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery in Manhattan. Chadsey offers up a collection of watercolor and pencil portraits of gay men based on self-portrait photographs he discovered on the internet in this intriguing show. Get on over there before its too late!

(Geoffrey Chadsey, Mirror Barbasol, Watercolor pencil on mylar, 68 x 42 inches. Courtesy of Jack Shainman Gallery.)

Comfort Women Wanted is still up around town in this final weekend before the holidays. This project was launched earlier this month by artist Chang-Jin Lee in an attempt to raise awareness of sexual violence towards women in times of war, and also to honor the memory of the thousands of women who were exploited in Asia during World War II. Keep a lookout for the advertising style posters created by Lee that can still be seen all over the city.

(Chang-Jin Lee, Poster from Comfort Women Wanted, 2008. Courtesy of the artist.)

The legendary Cindy Sherman has a solo-exhibition in its final days at Metro Pictures in Manhattan. This show features Sherman’s most recent work, an exploration of how the self perception and ideas of beauty distort as we age. This exhibition closes December 23rd.

(Cindy Sherman, Untitled, 2008, color photograph, 70 x 63.5 inches (frame). Courtesy of Metro Pictures.)

In her second exhibition at Zach Feuer Gallery, Nathalie Djurberg presents a sculptural installation and a new stop-animation film. The film features a claymation ballerina dancing through a handmade Neo-Baroque tea set in this exploration of racism, sex, and the macabre. Eventually overpowered by the objects themselves, the ballerina drowns tragically in dripping candle wax. This show will be up until January 24th.

(Nathalie Djurberg, Still from I found myself alone, 2008. Clay animation, digital video. Music by Hans Berg. Courtesy of Zach Feuer Gallery.)

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Our own The Fertile Goddess, co-curated by Maura Reilly, founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Madeleine Cody, Research Associate in Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art, Brooklyn Museum, opened TODAY in the Herstory Gallery! Visit the blog next week for more on this show!

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An Ongoing Series of Panels on Human Trafficking

Sarah Giovanniello on December 19, 2008

In the autumn of 2008, the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art began an ongoing series on the serious and epidemic issue of sex trafficking and child prostitution throughout the world.

Part 1: "A Global Epidemic: Human Trafficking in Your Neighborhood," featured a discussion with Sonia Ossorio, President of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW-NYC).



Part 2: "Sex Trafficking and the New Abolitionists," was moderated by iconic feminist and activist Gloria Steinem, and featured a discussion with panelists Taina Bien-Aimé, Executive Director of Equality Now, and Rachel Lloyd, Executive Director of GEMS, an educational and mentoring service for young women who have been subjected to sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking.



Stay tuned for more video from this ongoing series in the coming weeks!

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Picks! (12/8-12/18)

Jessica Shaffer on December 8, 2008

Behavior, a new solo exhibition by artist Nayland Blake just opened at Location One in Manhattan. This 25 year retrospective of Blake’s work was put together by Maura Reilly, founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. One of Blake's pieces, Untitled, 2003, is also on view right now as part of Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection. This show will be up until February 14th. Don't miss it!

(Nayland Blake, Heavenly Bunny Suit, 2004. Courtesy of Location One.)

Over Thanksgiving break, I had the opportunity to see Fantastical Fables: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by Amy Cutler at the Bowdoin Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine. One of Cutler's prints was featured in Global Feminisms in 2007 here at the museum, and this new exhibition is a great opportunity to see a large amount of her work. This exhibition is only up until January 11th, but it is definitely worth the trip!

(Amy Cutler, Dinner Party, 2002, Gouache on paper, 44 x 50 1/2 inches. Courtesy of Brown University.)

Brooklyn Block Party opened earlier this month at Ad Hoc Art in Bushwick. This exhibition features carved wood and lino blocks alongside their corresponding prints by artist Swoon, among others. Don't miss this interesting show, which closes January 4th.

(Promotional Image, Courtesy of Ad Hoc Gallery.)

As part of their Iran: New Voices series, Barbican of London is presenting three short films and a question and answer session with artist Shirin Neshat. Click here for more feminist Iranian film events from this past weekend at Barbican.

(Shirin Neshat, Faezeh, 2008, Film still from a video/sound installation. Courtesy of Barbican.)

The Way Things Go is in its final weeks at the Inglett Gallery in Manhattan. Feminist video and installation artist Mika Rottenberg is among the artists featured in this group show that explores the functioning (and misfunctioning) of constructed mechanisms. Check it out before it closes January 20th.

(Mika Rottenberg, 3 (for W), 2008, C-print. Courtesy of Inglett Gallery.)

Feminist artist Sophie Calle and Felix González-Torres along with Hiraki Sawa, Ange Leccia, Anri Sala, Michal Heiman, Ran Slavin, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Mark Wallinger, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Duane Michals, Annette Messager, and Melanie Manchot are currently featured in Insomnia at the Petach-Tikva Museum in Israel. The exhibition includes a 151 minute film, Sleeper, alongside Andy Warhol’s Sleep, 1963, as part of this examination of time and the nocturnal. This exhibition will be up until March 7, 2009.

(Mark Wallinger, Sleeper, 2004, Video. Courtesy of Petach Tikva Museum of Art.)

dress for Today opened last week at A.I.R. Gallery. This exhibition features the work of A.I.R.’s fellowship artist Ari Tabei, whose intricate dress constructions sometimes take on a life of their own, consuming the artist to become more than simply a garment. As part of dress for Today, Tabei will be performing Dress for Today #6 from 3-6pm December 6th, 13th and 20th. This exhibition will be up until January 4th.

(Ari Tabei, From dress for Today. Courtesy of A.I.R. Gallery.)

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