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We love male feminists: Above Average Looking/Accessible Lives (Somatopower), work by Sands Murray-Wassink, is open in Munich at Lothringer Dreizehn through January. Murray-Wassink, working in the spirit of 1970’s American Feminist artists such as Valie Export and Carolee Schneemann, critiques the silencing of homosexual identity in the U.S. and forces viewers to confront their discomfort with overt sexuality and nudity.

(Sands Murray-Wassink, Above Average Looking/Accessible Lives (Somatopower), exhibition announcement. Courtesy: Lothringer Dreizehn.)

Mariette Pathy Allen’s show Beyond the Gender Frontier opens November 26th (with a gallery reception and artist’s slide presentation on Nov. 28th) at the Anderson L. Wallace Gallery of Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, MA. Mariette Pathy Allen’s photographic and written work deals extensively with transgender perspectives and experiences.

Lucy and Jorge Orta’s Antarctic Village-No Borders opens November 24th at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano, Italy. Antarctic Village-No Borders was originally installed in Antarctica in March 2007 as part of the 2007 Biennial at the End of the World. The 50 dome-shaped dwellings, reminiscent of nomadic shelters or refugee camps, comprise Lucy and Jorge Orta’s idea of the “global village.” In their work, the Ortas routinely address global politics, human rights, and environmental concerns; their site is definitely worth checking out.

(Lucy and Jorge Orta, Antarctic Village-No Borders, 2007. Courtesy: Studio Orta.)