The exhibition brings together legions of courageous women who made political works of art about their lives to tell the story of the feminist movements of the 1970s and the 1980s.
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Many of those who celebrate Banksy hold contradictory positions on precisely the themes his works seem to address.
Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.
Sasha Huber’s work often involves renaming colonial landmarks, including a mountain in Switzerland.
Pam Longobardi collects and documents ocean plastic waste and transforms it into public art and photography. Her work makes statements about consumption, globalism and conservation.
Climate protesters are destabilizing the idea that public galleries are safe spaces for works of art, held in public trust.
Four decades later, post-apartheid South Africa barely recalls the Medu Art Ensemble’s contributions to the liberation struggle. But that could be changing.
To understand her contribution to public debate, it’s important to see her in the context of the historical moment that made her work possible, necessary and provocative.
Small signs, big questions and a fabulous wardrobe. How the world’s most famous doll is calling out art’s deeply entrenched male bias.
From Fukushima to a stalkers visual diary, art can be confrontational whether it’s far away or uncomfortably close
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Associate professor, George Mason University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Professional Development, University of Huddersfield
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Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, Sheffield Hallam University
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Associate Professor, Art History, University of Guelph
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Regents' Professor of Art and Design, Georgia State University
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Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa
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Chair in Culture Media and Visual Arts, University of the West of Scotland