The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is an exhibition and education facility dedicated to feminist art. Check our postings for updates on feminist art events in- and outside the Center!
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- Location:
- Brooklyn, NY, 11238
- Phone:
- 718-638-5000
- Wed - Fri:
- 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Sat - Sun:
- 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
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Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Join us this Sunday, December 13 at 2pm for a screening of the award-winning documentary "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" (Gini Reticker, 2008, 71 min., NR). The film chronicles the remarkable story of the Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their country. A dialogue and questio...n-and-answer session with Producer Abigail E. Disney and Dr. Elizabeth Sackler follows the screening. (Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn Museum)
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art The Feminist Press has new publications out just in time for the holidays. Some of our favorites: "Hammer! Making Movies Out of Sex and Life" by queer filmmaker Barbara Hammer and "The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science" by historian Julie Des Jardins. Also check out the Femme Fatales series... of classic pulp fiction by women writers, including "Now, Voyager" by Olive Higgins Prouty and "The G-String Murders" by burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee.
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Cheryl Clarke, Angela Davis, bell hooks, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Alice Walker—from the pioneers of black women’s studies comes Still Brave, the definitive collection of race and gender writings today.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
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SATURDAY: Join us this Saturday, December 5 @ 5.30pm for "La Vie du
Christ" (The Life of Christ) with live piano accompaniment by Ben
Model. This silent film by Alice Guy Blaché, the first female film
director, draws on James Tissot’s paintings of the life of Christ,
currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum. Judith Dolk...art, curator of "James Tissot: 'The Life of Christ,'" and Joan Simon, Curator at Large at the Whitney Museum, will introduce the film and answer questions after.
Free tickets available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Now on view: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987-1993" presents politically-charged posters, stickers, and other visual media made during this pivotal moment of AIDS activism, including the iconic neon sculpture "SILENCE=DEATH" and Gran Fury's controversial "Kissing Doesn't Kill" ad campaign. Th...is important exhibition opens just over 20 years after the formation of ACT UP and also marks the 40 year anniversary of the Stonewall riots, the defining event that marked the start of the gay and lesbian rights movement in the U.S. Through December 23 at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA. For more info, click here: http://www.harvardartmuseum.org/exhibiti
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Now on view: “Slyiva Sleigh: Selected Works” at I-20 Gallery, NYC. Sleigh once said, “There were always pictures of beautiful women but very few of handsome men, so I thought that it would be truly fair to paint handsome men for women.” This exhibition includes early portraits of artists, art critics, and friends fro...m the 1970s. Through December 31. For more info, click here: http://www.i-20.com/exhibition.php?exhib
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Now on view: “Agnes Denes: Philosophy and the Land II: Works from the 1960s to the Present.” An exhibition of approximately one hundred photographs, including the iconic color photographs depicting the various stages of Wheatfield – A Confrontation (1982), her best-known piece and a pivotal work in the history of Land ...Art. Through January 16 at Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, NYC. For more info, click here: http://www.tonkonow.com/index.html
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Now on view: "A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art." This exhibition provides a sampling of work by 16 contemporary women who have woven the the threads of their diverse identities into their art. Through December 18 at the Stedman Gallery in Camden, NJ, after which the show will tour nationally.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art PERFORMA Pick: Marina Rosenfeld presents "P.A." a sound art performance tonight at 7pm at the Park Avenue Armory.
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A sound art performance by Park Avenue Armory artist-in-residence Marina Rosenfeld, “P.A.” uses the massive airspace and complex social function of the Armory drill hall as both a reflecting ...
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art New work by post-minimalist pioneer Lynda Benglis is now on view at Cheim & Read through January 2, 2010. Included in the exhibition are large-scale bronze wall-hangings cast from urethane foam over wire. For more information about the show, click the link below:
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
For those of you in Montreal: EASCFA Curator Catherine Morris will be presenting "Then, Now, and Later? Feminist Art From a Curatorial Perspective" at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art on Tuesday, November 24 @ 6pm. This Salon event is held in conjunction with the feminist art exhibition "je n’étais pas qu’une simple c...himère
(I haven’t been a figment of my own imagination)," up through January 23, 2010.
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art PERFORMA Pick: "K.62" is a new orchestrated performance by acclaimed installation artsit Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster created in collaboration with renowned composer and performer Ari Benjamin Meyers. Inspired by Orson Welles' unforgettable film version of Franz Kafka's "The Trial" (1962), "K.62" is a musical mystery t...hat involves an audience, an orchestra, a little bit of magic, and a lot of imagination. Second and last performance tonight @ 7.30pm and the Henry Du Jour Playhouse. For tickets and more information, click the link below:
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“K.62″ is a new orchestrated performance by acclaimed installation artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster created in collaboration with renowned composer and performer Ari Benjamin Meyers, with ...
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Reminder: The Brooklyn Museum honors renowned artist Kiki Smith at its 7th annual Women in the Arts award ceremony this Thursday, November 19, 11am-2.30pm. The program, held at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium (3rd Floor), includes a lively discussion with the artist, the award presentation by Museum Director ...Arnold L. Lehman, and a reception and luncheon in the Museum's Beaux-Arts Court.
For tickets and/or further information, contact the Community Commitee office by phone at (718) 789-2493, fax at (718) 501-6127, or emailedith.frazier@brooklynmuseum.org.
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The Brooklyn Museum honors renowned artist Kiki Smith at its seventh annual Women in the Arts award ceremony.Kiki Smith has long been recognized as one of the most significant artists of her generation. ...
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
PERFORMA Pick: Legendary choreographers and old friends Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer present two new performances on the same evening, sharing a stage for the first time in over 25 years. Hay's "If I Sing To You," features an all-star cast of New York-based female performer/choreographers. Rainer's "Spiraling Down" ...draws its inspiration from a variety of sources--including newspaper photos, soccer moves, old movies, ballet, Sarah Bernhardt, and Rainer's own disinterred dances from the 1960s.
Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th St, NYC
Tues-Thurs Nov 17-19 @ 7.30pm
Tickets: $25 @ www.bacny.org
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Two legendary old friends–Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer–present two new performances on the same evening, sharing a stage for the first time in over 25 years. Deborah Hay’s “If I Sing ...
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Don't miss "AXELL'S PARADISE: Last works (1971-72) before she vanished" at Broadway 1602. Belgian pop artist Evelyne Axell's vibrant paintings on Plexiglas are beautiful, sexually evocative, and boldy poetic. Her liberated nudes have been hailed as icons of the "sexual revolution in art." Ends this Saturday, Novembe...r 21.
Broadway 1602
1182 Broadway, at 28th St, NYC
Tues-Sat 2-6 pm and by appt
www.broadway1602.com/artists/EA.html
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Join us this Saturday, Nov 14 @ 2pm for "Ask Me a Question, Any Question," an open discussion with acclaimed actress and women's rights adovocate Kathleen Turner.
Please note venue change:
*Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor*
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