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Ladyfest London, an arts festival celebrating female creativity in all its incarnations- music, art, comedy, film, spoken word, etc.- happens May 9th-11th.

Also on May 11th, CSS Bard Hessel Museum opens three new shows including, Modernism: On and Off the Grid, with work by VALIE EXPORT, and Act Out, with work by Hannah Wilke and Cheryl Donegan.

(Superstudio, Supersurface-Life, 1972. Included in Modernism: On and Off the Grid. Courtesy: Superstudio archive, Italy and CSS Bard.)

Beginning May 12th, Chloe Piene’s distinctively beautiful and disarming new drawings will be displayed alongside five of her sculptures at Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc.

(Chloe Piene, Goat with Ghost Hand, charcoal on paper, 2002. Courtesy: Chloe Piene.)

Recent Works by Anita Dube opens May 15th at Bose Pacia. In work such as Phantoms of Liberty, Dube transgresses boundaries of inside/outside and public/private by wrapping domestic objects in camouflage-patterned fabric and displaying them.

(Anita Dube, Inside Out, 2006. Courtesy: Bose Pacia.)

Fire Walkers: Contemporary Artists from India and South Asia, now open at Stefan Stux Gallery, includes work by Mona Hatoum and Lalla Essaydi. Closes June 7th.

(Reena Saini Kallat, Synonym-Man, painted rubber stamps on acrylic, 2007. Courtesy: Stefan Stux Gallery.)

Aude du Pasquier Grall’s The Male Cycle #7 remains open through June 7th at Envoy Gallery. In this series Aude du Pasquier Grall inverts the stereotypical gender roles of voyeurism by filming and photographing male nudes.

(Aude du Pasquier Grall, Le Cycle Masculin no. 6, video/photograph, 2004. Courtesy: Envoy Gallery.)

Two and three dimensional work by Rosemarie Trockel is now on view, through June 25th, at Galerie Georg Kargl.

(Rosemarie Trockel, Skies, glazed ceramics, 2006. Courtesy: Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers.)

Global Feminisms artist Ryoko Suzuki has a show of new images of the character Anikora-Seifuku, this time in fetishized costumes, open now through July 13th at Corkin Gallery of Toronto.

(Ryoko Suzuki, Anikora-Seifuku (Uniform 2), chromogenic color print, 2007. Courtesy: Ryoko Suzuki.)

Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s includes work by Alice Aycock, Lynda Benglis, and Nancy Holt among other feminists who made significant, often overlooked, contributions to the development of sculptural practice in the 1970s. Open now through July 28th at the Sculpture Center along with Michael Portnoy’s Casino Ilinx.

(Agnes Denes, Wheatfield-A Confrontation, Battery Park Landfill, NY, 1982. Courtesy: greenmuseum.org.)

*Also, on May 17th at Sculpture Center, Decoys curator Catherine Morris and WACK! curator Connie Butler will speak with exhibiting artists about their relationship to feminism then and now.

**Which reminds me: if you New Yorkers have not yet seen WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution, this is your last chance; the exhibition runs through May 12th at P.S.1 MoMA.