Picks of the Week (5/14-5/20)

This week we would like to highlight a not-to-be-missed day of feminist performance at the Bronx Museum!

(The All City Marching Waitress Band, 1979. Courtesy: Bronx Museum.)

Day of Performance: Contemporary Collectives Do Outrageous Work! is scheduled for May 17th as the live component of Making It Together: Women’s Collaborative Art + Community (exhibition on view through August 4th) at the Bronx Museum. Making It Together was curated by the incredibly influential feminist art critic Carey Lovelace. Lovelace has written an essay Together, Again: Women’s Collaborative Art + Community that speaks in depth on the artists included in the exhibition as well as more generally on feminist artistic collaboration in the 1970’s. Check out the awesome list of events which includes performances by The Brainstormers (in collaboration with the Guerrilla Girls), The Waitresses, Ridykeulous, and, among others, Cristal Brown & InSpirit!

(Three Weeks in May, 1977, performance by Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz. Courtesy: Bronx Museum.)

*Watch a video of Suzanne Lacy’s The Performing Archive Project.

**To read the New York Times review of Making It Together, click here.

This week, also check out:

Alice Anderson’s MIROIR MIROIR-La traversée des apparences opens at FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.

On May 16th, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery hosts Dwell, a group show of work by Lisa Dahl, Susan Hamburger, and Margaret Murphy ruminate on the current cultural obsession with the home and its accoutrements as symbols of status and success. These artists sardonically allow social and economic politics to infiltrate the safety of the domestic sphere.

(Dwell announcement with work by (left to right) Margaret Murphy, Lisa Dahl, and Susan Hamburger. Courtesy: Cheryl McGinnis Gallery.)

Pink & Bent: Art of Queer Women opens May 20th at the Leslie/Lohman Gallery. On the evening of May 29th there will be a panel discussion entitled Women in the Arts Speak Out. The group show aims to enlighten audiences about the different aspects of being a queer woman within the contexts of artistic freedom of expression and to define terms such as “queer” through visual media rather than within the confines of language.

(Rebecca Bradley, Lover, 2006. Courtesy: Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation.)

A.I.R. Gallery Retrospective: 1972-1979 remains open through June 14th at Werkstätte Gallery. Founded in 1972, A.I.R. Gallery was the first women’s cooperative gallery in New York. Keeping abreast of the concurrent women’s movement, A.I.R. responded to the inadequate representation of female artists and ultimately helped pioneer the SoHo art scene in the 1970s. This is an extensive survey of the women artists who helped found and build A.I.R.