500 Years of Female Portrait Paintings in 3 minutes!
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A conversation with Nina Paley about “Sita Sings the Blues”
Nina Paley is the writer, director, animator, and producer of the highly acclaimed animated feature film, Sita Sings the Blues. At one point, her film was illegal due to copyright laws; sharing it with audiences was technically a Federal crime. The film is now legal, and free to share (see sitasingstheblues.com). Nina is now artist-in-residence …
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Waiting: A Poem by Faith Wilding
Waiting . . . waiting . . . waiting . . . Waiting for someone to come in Waiting for someone to hold me Waiting for someone to feed me Waiting for someone to change my diaper Waiting . . . Waiting to scrawl, to walk, waiting to talk Waiting to be cuddled Waiting for someone …
Shocked and outraged by Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda video? Perhaps you should butt out
We need to see more black women on our screens, and a broader view of female sexuality as a whole. Cheeky videos are a symptom, not a cause, of our patriarchal pop culture In the summer when America’s racial wounds are rupturing, and the anger of the disenfranchised boils over from a hashtag into a …
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Jenny Holzer: creating concepts
Radical statements in large fonts projected on buildings all over the world. This is Jenny Holzer’s work. And it just can’t go unnoticed. New York, 1982 American artist Jenny Holzer is one of the most well known contemporary artists of our time. Her work has appeared in public spaces all around the world. She experiments …