Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art — Part 1
The Brooklyn Museum is certainly one of the least risk-averse of the major New York museums. After all, it hosted the provocative anti-religious photographs of Andreas Serrano that so inflamed Mayor Giuliani in the 1990s, and it now has an entire floor devoted to feminist art. The gem of the Sackler Center is Judy Chicago’s landmark piece, The Dinner Party (1974-79), which had been in stora
22 May 2007 12:00
Joel Simpson
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Visual Arts
Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Through July 1, 2007.
The Brooklyn Museum is certainly one of the least risk-averse of the major New York museums. After all, it hosted the provocative anti-religious photographs of Andreas Serrano that so inflamed Mayor Giuliani in the 1990s, and it now has an entire floor devoted to feminist art.
JOEL SIMPSON has been photographing since he was a teenager in the 1960s. Since then he's pursued careers in college teaching (English, French and Italian), jazz piano, and music software. His photographic art work has shown in six New York area galleries, as well as in Texas, Massachusetts, Colorado, and Seattle, and has been published in View Magazine (Brussels), and in the Center for Fine Art Photography’s Artist Showcase. In the fall of 2007 there will be a major article on his body projections in Eyemazing, a photography quarterly published in Amsterdam, for which he is the New York correspondent. From 2003 to 2006 he wrote for M: The New York Art World, and he is currently curating a large photography show at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in Brooklyn, NY, entitled Sun-Pictures to Mega-Pixels: Archaic Processes to Alternative Realities (www.wahcenter.org).
