The author is examining the interplay between voice and sculpture, within the field of sound art. The term ‘sculpture’ has been appropriated by many artists to define their work with the voice. Exploring the sculpted voice, three main categories are here identified: the plastic dimension of voice as a sculptable material, the sculptural…[Read more]

Availability of vocal music scores compilations containing art songs by African American composers. Supplemental content accompanying the book, So You Want to Sing Spirituals.

The essay analyzes a contemporary Indian feminist performance, Thoda Dhyaan Se (A Little Carefully, 2013), by framing it in the spatial ecosystem of the city of Delhi and explores its engagement with the feminist movement and the national imaginary of India. It examines the workings of the cultural economy of the city to discuss the effect of its…[Read more]

This review examines Judith K. Brodsky and Ferris Olin’s book Junctures in Women’s Leadership: The Arts, published by Rutgers University Press in 2018.

The prints featured in this exhibition are all products of the Meiji period (1868–1912), a time of massive cultural and institutional transformation in Japanese culture. The era is characterized by rapid westernization brought about after the opening of Japanese ports in 1854 and the subsequent restoration of the Meiji Emperor in 1868. The p…[Read more]

This article is an encyclopedia entry in the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.

This article is an encyclopedia entry in the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.

This article is an encyclopedia entry in the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.

This article is an encyclopedia entry in the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.

This article is an encyclopedia entry in the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art.

A short discussion of The Feminist Art Project’s inception.

This essay examined the relationship between P&D and feminism in American contemporary art. It was part of the exhibition catalogue for the 2018-2020 exhibition “Pattern and Decoration: Ornament as Promise,” co-organized by the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (Ludwig Forum) and the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna (mumok) and…[Read more]

This article examined a spate of recent exhibitions dealing with P&D-related art and discussed upcoming P&D exhibitions.

While male illustrators including Alberto Vargas (1896–1982), George Petty (1894–1975), and Gil Elvgren (1914–1980) are synonymous with the field of early-twentieth-century pin-up art, there were in fact several women who also succeeded in the genre. Pearl Frush (1907–1986), Zoë Mozert (1907–1993), and Joyce Ballantyne (1918–2006) each establi…[Read more]

This article is a brief interview with the important emerging Canadian lesbian feminist artist Allyson Mitchell.

This short piece discusses the recent work of Canadian artist Allyson Mitchell.

This brief article considers “9 Evenings Reconsidered: Art, Theatre and Engineering, 1966,” an exhibition organized by the independent curator Catherine Morris for the List Center for Visual Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), from May 4 – July 9, 2006.

This article briefly reviews two concurrent exhibitions of Eva Hesse’s art, one at The Jewish Museum (“Eva Hesse: Sculpture,” May 16-September 17, 2006) and one at The Drawing Center (“Eva Hesse: Drawing,” May 6-July 15, 2006).