REVISIONIST HISTORY 2.0, fully dialed up over the past few decades, is once again on a mission to rediscover the many significant artists who were marginalized and never given their due. Patriarchal bias led the charge in discounting certain artists because of their gender, skin color, sexuality, or cultural identity, as straight white men ruled the canon and owned virtually every piece of modernist art real estate in the twentieth century. Clearing away the muck of misinformation, waking up to forms of serial discrimination perpetrated by all our reputable institutions, retrofitting the historical record to reflect the diversity that flourished beneath the story of art’s “official” veneer indeed, the amount of excavation and correction required is exhausting and seemingly endless.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is pleased to announce Faith Ringgold: American People, a career-spanning survey of artist Faith Ringgold.
Edited by Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari and Margot Norton, Judy Chicago: Herstory is a comprehensive and beguiling look at the artist's 60-year career. A significant artist in a plethora of ways, Chicago is a champion of contemporary feminist art thanks to her infinite talent and vision. Within the 296-page book, her many works spanning installation, painting,…