"Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection" Exhibition
Brooklyn Museum
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The exhibition title refers to the idea of the “master’s house” from two perspectives: the museum as the historical domain of male artists and professed masters of art history, and the house as the supposed proper province of women.
Most of the paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and videos in the exhibition are by self-declared feminists and artists of later generations working within the historic framework of feminist art. The widely diverse forms and ideas on view suggest that feminist art is not limited to a specific look or reading.
[Image: Carrie Mae Weems “Untitled (Man Smoking/Malcolm X), from the Kitchen Table series” (1990) Gelatin silver print]
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Schedule
from October 31, 2008 to February 08, 2009
Artist(s)
Carrie Mae Weems, Kiki Smith, Tracey Emin, Tracey Moffatt et al.