A quarterly feminist publication on art and politics. Issued edited by the Great Goddess Collective Members: Martha Alsup, Tracy Boyd, Janet Culbertson, Mary Beth Edelson, Deborah Freedman, Donna Henes, Anne Healy, Buffie Johnson, Grace Shinell, Merlin Stone, Carolee Thea, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Mary Albanese, Rosemary Dudley, Gail Feinstein, Gina Foglia, Diane Levin, and Susan Turner. ... [details]
"Institutional Critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when—driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art—institutional critique emerged as a genre. ... [details]